In the first ever theoretical treatment of the environmental justice movement, David Schlosberg demonstrates the development of a new form of "critical" pluralism, in both theory and practice. His timely and sophisticated study presents a challenge to both conventional pluralist thought and the practices of the major groups in the US environmental movement.

• Part 1. Pluralism and Difference: The Environmental Challenge


• 1: Introduction: The Environmental Challenge to Pluralism


• 2: Approaches to Difference in the US Environmental Movement: Classification Schemes, Hegemonic Definitions, and Singular Motivations


• Part 2. Critical Pluralism in Theory


• 3: Pluralism and Difference: A Genealogy of Multiplicity


• 4: Components of a Critical Pluralism: Ethics and Processes


• Part 3. Environmental Justice: Critical Pluralism in Practice


• 5: The Politics of Networking in the Grassroots Environmental Justice Movement


• 6: Communicative Practices and Communicative Demands in the Environmental Justice Movement


• Part 4. Conclusion


• 7: Environmental Justice and the Prospects for a Critical Pluralism

David Schlosberg is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northern Arizona University