Living beyond the pale

Titel: Living beyond the pale : environmental justice and the Roma minority / Richard Filčàk
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Veröffentlicht: Budapest ˜[u.a.]œ : Central European Univ. Press,, 2012
Umfang: VII, 237 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9786155225130
Lokale Klassifikation: 24 3 C ; 27 12 J ; 24 12 O ; 24 13 O ; 27 13 K ; 24 8 K 188
  • List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • p. ixi
  • List of Tables
  • p. xii
  • List of Figures
  • p. xiii
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. xv
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Chapter 1
  • Environment, Poverty and the Roma
  • p. 5
  • Points of Departure
  • p. 8
  • Setting of the Story
  • p. 14
  • Part 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Environmental Justice and Entitlements
  • p. 19
  • Distribution and Procedures
  • p. 20
  • What Can We Learn from the Justice Struggles?
  • p. 25
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • p. 34
  • Entitlements: Resources and Control
  • p. 38
  • Chapter 3
  • The Roma of Slovakia
  • p. 45
  • The Past and the Present
  • p. 48
  • New Regime and Old Tricks
  • p. 51
  • Villages and Shantytowns
  • p. 58
  • Situation and Trends
  • p. 61
  • Part II
  • Chapter 4
  • Rudňany: A Tale of the Old Liabilities
  • p. 69
  • The Village and the People
  • p. 71
  • The Roma in Rudňany
  • p. 76
  • A Story of Contaminated Land
  • p. 78
  • Roma Coping Strategies
  • p. 82
  • Entitlements and Resources
  • p. 84
  • People and the Power
  • p. 89
  • Roma and the Environment
  • p. 93
  • Environmental Injustice
  • p. 96
  • Chapter 5
  • The Svinka River: People, Water and the Environment
  • p. 99
  • People, Housing and Segregation
  • p. 102
  • Hermanovce
  • p. 107
  • Jarovnice
  • p. 109
  • Svinia
  • p. 111
  • A Tale of Water
  • p. 114
  • Floods
  • p. 120
  • Environment and Coping Strategies
  • p. 125
  • Land, Entitlements and Environmental Justice
  • p. 128
  • Chapter 6
  • A Regional Snapshot Overview
  • p. 131
  • Exposure to Toxic and Waste
  • p. 133
  • Access to Water and Sanitation
  • p. 136
  • Exposure to Flood
  • p. 137
  • The Land: Access and Entitlements
  • p. 139
  • Risks and the People
  • p. 146
  • Part III
  • Chapter 7
  • Patterns of Environmental (In)justice
  • p. 151
  • Pattern 1: Exposure to Hazardous Waste and Chemicals
  • p. 153
  • Pattern 2: Vulnerability to Floods
  • p. 154
  • Pattern 3: Differentiated Access to Potable Water
  • p. 157
  • Pattern 4: Discriminatory Waste Management Practice
  • p. 159
  • The Patterns and the Impacts
  • p. 160
  • Chapter 8
  • Roma? Not in My Backyard
  • p. 165
  • Economic Interests
  • p. 168
  • Spatial Distance and "Not in My Backyard" Syndrome
  • p. 170
  • Changes in Local Economy
  • p. 172
  • "Beyond the Pale" Construction
  • p. 174
  • Symbolic, Cultural, and Social Capital
  • p. 176
  • Competition and Conflicts
  • p. 178
  • Chapter 9
  • Trends and Reverting the Trends
  • p. 183
  • Doom Scenario: From Competition to Conflict
  • p. 184
  • Optimistic Scenario: From Competition to Cooperation
  • p. 187
  • Short-term Measures: The Key Challenge of Housing
  • p. 188
  • Long-term Opportunities: What is Environmental is Also Economic and Social
  • p. 192
  • Green Employment
  • p. 199
  • From Entitlements and Involvement into Development
  • p. 204
  • Planning, Struggling, and Stakeholders
  • p. 209
  • Living beyond the Pale? Challenges and Conclusions
  • p. 212
  • Annex. Shifts in Approaches
  • p. 219
  • References
  • p. 223
  • Index
  • p. 233