Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention, Vol 1)

1. Introduction: Environmental Crisis And The Search For A Politics That Works -- Pt. I. Policy; Icon; Social Movement: Hazardous Waste In Three Arenas Of Political Action. 2. Routine Regulatory Failure: The Resource Conservation And Recovery Act. 3. Toxic Waste As Icon: A New Mass Issue Is Born. 4. The Toxics Movement: From Nimbyism To Radical Environmental Populism -- Pt. Ii. Reactions. 5. Could Opposition Be Neutralized? Discourses And Policies Of Disempowerment. 6. Hazardous Waste Regulation Progresses Against The Conservative Tide -- Pt. Iii. Results. 7. Fifteen Years Of Hazardous Waste Legislation: Summing Up The Policy Impacts. 8. Broader Political Implications? Environmental Populism And The Reconstitution Of Progressive Politics -- 9. Concluding Remarks. Andrew Szasz. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 195-211) And Index. Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 1. Introduction: Environmental Crisis and the Search for a Politics That Works......Page 12 Part I. Policy; Icon; Social Movement: Hazardous Waste in Three Arenas of Political Action......Page 20 2. Routine Regulatory Failure: The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976......Page 22 3. "Toxic Waste" as Icon: A New Mass Issue Is Born......Page 49 4. The Toxics Movement: From NIMBYism to Radical Environmental Populism......Page 80 Part II. Reactions......Page 112 5. Could Opposition Be Neutralized? Discourses and Policies of Disempowerment......Page 114 6. Hazardous Waste Regulation Progresses against the Conservative Tide......Page 127 Part III. Results......Page 146 7. Fifteen Years of Hazardous Waste Legislation: Summing Up the Policy Impacts......Page 148 8. Broader Political Implications? Environmental Populism and the Reconstitution of Progressive Politics......Page 161 9. Concluding Remarks......Page 173 Notes......Page 178 References......Page 206 G......Page 224 M......Page 225 S......Page 226 W......Page 227 Szasz identifies the force that pushed environmental policy away from pollution removal towards the logic of prevention. He describes how lawmakers sought to appease popular discontent by reinforcing toxic waste laws, and suggests this force may be a further impulse for progressive politics.