Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone: Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana

About this book

Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone is an ethnography of the lived experience of rapid environmental change in coastal Louisiana USA. Writing from a political ecology perspective Maldonado explores the effects of changes to localized climate and ecology on the Isle de Jean Charles Grand Caillou/Dulac and Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribes. Focusing in particular on wide-ranging displacement effects she argues that changes to climate and ecology should not be viewed in isolation as only physical processes but as part of wider socio-political and historical contexts. The book is valuable reading for students and scholars in the fields of anthropology sociology geography environmental studies and disaster studies as well as public policy and planning.