Slow Harms and Citizen Action

ISBN-13: 9780197669020 / Twarda / 2024 / 264 str.

Veronica (Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Politica

Recenzje

In this pathbreaking study of river pollution on the poor fringes of Bogot'a, Lima, and Buenos Aires, Herrera shows how these invisible and creeping harms and the marginalization of residents act as obstacles to grassroots mobilization, and how broader human rights activist networks shape institutional responses when these obstacles are overcome. Drawing novel links between histories of political violence and contemporary environmental mobilization, Slow Harms and Citizen Action illuminates divergent trajectories of contemporary urban politics in Latin America.

O autorze

Veronica Herrera is Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in urban politics, environmental policy, and social mobilization, and is the author of the award-winning book, Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Herrera has served as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Ford Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. Her articles have been published in numerous outlets such as Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, and World Development.