Book Review: From the inside out: The fight for environmental justice within government agencies by Jill Harrison

2022 ◽  
pp. 194277862110614
Author(s):  
Lindsey Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Agency Staff ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
Trump Administration

In From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies (MIT Press, 2019), Jill Harrison offers a nuanced study of why U.S. state agencies fail at implementing robust environmental justice (EJ) policies. Through a rigorous interview and ethnographic based methodology Harrison details the discourses, ideologies, and everyday practices and through which government agency staff, daily, undermine and even outright reject EJ policies and programs. The book is a richly empirical study that makes valuable contributions to academic and activist understandings of the government's failure to respond meaningfully to environmental injustices, and offers specific recommendations for how to reform government agencies. It is a timely monograph as EJ advocates seek to reimagine government agencies in the wake of the Trump administration, and in the context of an expanded public consciousness of racism following the killing of George Floyd and subsequent uprisings during the summer of 2020.

scholarly journals Book Review: Our Unprotected Heritage: Whitewashing the Destruction of our Cultural and Natural Environment

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Walters
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Peace Of Mind

Before becoming involved in archeology, I was a commercial nurseryman for thirty years in East Texas. Finally though, I had my fill of fighting weather, unstable markets, pests and yes, government agencies. After retirement I sought what I thought would be tranquility in the field of archeology. Archeology was a topic that I had been interested in since I was a teenager and I thought it would provide the peace-of-mind I was seeking. Wrong again.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Marianne Constable ◽  
Leti Volpp ◽  
Bryan Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Geographic Regions ◽  
Judicial Opinions ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Function ◽  
Meaning And Function ◽  
Inside Out

WHAT ARE THE “wrong places” of law? If, for many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in the rules of judicial opinions or in the texts of statutes and constitutions, the “wrong places” are sites and spaces in which no such law—or even reference to such law—appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law, everyday practices ungoverned or ungovernable by law, or works of art that have escaped law’s constraints. Many essays in this volume look for law precisely in such “wrong places” where there seems to be no law. They find in these places not only reflections and remains of law, but also rules and practices that seem indistinguishable from law. These essays raise challenging questions about the locations of law and about law’s meaning and function. Other essays in this volume seem to do the opposite: rather than looking for law in places where law does not obviously appear, they look in statute books and courtrooms, but from perspectives that are usually presumed to have nothing to say about law. Looking at law sideways or upside down or inside out defamiliarizes law. Weird, canted angles reveal otherwise ...

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