Toxic Truths

‘Toxic Truths highlights a myriad of threats facing our communities and ecosystems in this post-truth age, then pushes back and moves us forward with an array of examples of how ordinary people are democratizing science and knowledge production, and pursuing effective political action to tip the balance in favor of environmental justice movements across five continents. I am truly inspired by this powerful collection.’
David N. Pellow, Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of What is Critical Environmental Justice?

‘This is a book about knowledge tactics and politics in efforts to address environmental injustice in settings around the world. It is both a great history and set of cases about environmental justice activism, and an inspiring, creative guide for future work.’
Kim Fortun, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, and author of Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders

'The contributors to this book have done a sterling job in problematizing how toxically exposed citizens, in the main, remain politically passive actors in the struggle for ecological justice in the posttruth age. Toxic Truths shows how this must now transformatively change: not just through having more citizen science, but having it in different social, political, and scientific forms that support more equitable forms of environmental justice; and not just in those affected communities, but the nonstate institutions that so often support the posttruths politics of the political elite.'
AAG Review of Books