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AlterNatives: Community, Identity, and Environmental Justice on Walpole Island (Part of the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change Series) 1/e

Robert M. Van Wynsberghe

Published October 2001 by Allyn & Bacon
Copyright 2002, 160 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0-205-34952-8
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$26.60

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Features

  • Combines social movements theory and a variety of qualitative methods to explore a local manifestation of the environmental justice movement.
  • Studies how the Native environmental justice framework fuses together notions of cultural diversity and collective identity.
  • Offers a full-blown case study that portrays three years (1994-97) of intensive ethnographic research into four successive incidents in the Walpole Island First Nation's fifteen year (1984-98) struggle to control their natural and cultural resources.
  • Describes and analyzes the methods of participant observations, semi-structured interviews, and content analyses.
  • Details the formation of a “sustainability” collective action frame.
  • Interprets theory in a context that has enormous potential for teaching other communities about the process of community-based organizing.


Table of Contents



Preface.

Foreward by Dean Jacobs, Executive Director Walpole Island Heritage Centre.



1. Walpole Island.

Walpole Island: Recent History.

Walpole Island Today.

Framing the Debate: Collective Action and Identity.

The Truth About the Questions.

Coming Attractions.



2. Resources, Values, and the Heritage Centre.

Historical Forces and the Building of the Heritage Centre.

The Heritage Centre.

Engaging the Community/Maintaining Legitimacy.

The Heritage Centre and the Synthesis Model.



3. The Toxic Blob.

Science for the Angry: Is Research Sufficient?

A Brief History of Walpole Island.

Contemporary Walpole Island: A Community Responds to Contamination.

How the Heritage Centre Reformulates Sustainability.

Consciousness Negotiated.



4. The Pipeline/Water Tower.

The Event.

Elders and Future Generations.

Recent Past.

The Heritage Centre's Reformulation of Sustainability.

Summary: Solidarity and Implicit Meanings.



5. The Wetlands Management Plan: Ambivalence and Contradiction.

The Event.

Community Response to the Wetlands Management Plan: Cultural Health and Sustainability.

Recent Past.

Heritage Centre's Response to Community Opposition to the Wetlands.

Management Plan.

Summary: Collective Identity and Negotiating Tradition.



6. Imperial Chemical Industries of Canada.

Ten Cents for Every Gallon.

The Collective Action Frame.

Raising the Ante: Zero Discharge.

The Heritage Centre's Reformulation of the Collective Action Frame.

Summary: Alliances Revisited.



7. Critical Findings: Methodological Considerations.

All the Me's in Method.

Theory.

Consciousness, Collective Identity, and Solidarity Revisited.

Some Final Words: AlterNatives.

Native Environmental Justice Framework.




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