Working across Lines

Working across Lines

Resisting Extreme Energy Extraction

$29.95

Publication Date: 12th July 2022

How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis of climate justice coalitions in California and Idaho—two... Read More
0 in stock
How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis of climate justice coalitions in California and Idaho—two... Read More
Description
How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? 

Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis of climate justice coalitions in California and Idaho—two states with distinct fossil fuel histories, environmental contexts, and political cultures. Drawing on ethnographic evidence from 106 in-depth interviews and three years of participant observation, Corrie Grosse investigates the ways people build effective energy justice coalitions across differences in political views, race and ethnicity, age, and strategic preferences. This book argues for four practices that are critical for movement building: focusing on core values of justice, accountability, and integrity; identifying the roots of injustice; cultivating relationships among activists; and welcoming difference. In focusing on coalitions related to energy and climate justice, Grosse provides important models for bridging divides to reach common goals. These lessons are more relevant than ever.
 
Details
  • Price: $29.95
  • Pages: 272
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • Publication Date: 12th July 2022
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • Illustration Note: 18 b-w art
  • ISBN: 9780520388413
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
    SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change
    SCIENCE / Energy
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Author Bio
Corrie Grosse is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, where she teaches, researches, and organizes at the intersection of energy and climate justice. 
Table of Contents
Contents

Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction

1. The Energy and Political Landscape: Climate Crisis, Extreme Energy, and the 
Climate Justice Movement

2. The Organizing Landscape: Research Context

3. Idaho Part 1: Talking across Political Lines by Building Relationships 

4. Idaho Part 2: Talking across Political Lines by Agreeing to Disagree

5. Working across Intersectional Lines: Youth Values and Relationships

6. Working across Organizational Lines: Grassroots and Grasstops Tensions and 
Possibilities

7. Two Tales of Struggle: Coalition Building against Big Oil

8. Lessons from Measure P and the Megaloads: Native–Non-Native and Latinx-White 
Coalition Outcomes 

Conclusion 

Notes 
Bibliography
Index
How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? 

Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis of climate justice coalitions in California and Idaho—two states with distinct fossil fuel histories, environmental contexts, and political cultures. Drawing on ethnographic evidence from 106 in-depth interviews and three years of participant observation, Corrie Grosse investigates the ways people build effective energy justice coalitions across differences in political views, race and ethnicity, age, and strategic preferences. This book argues for four practices that are critical for movement building: focusing on core values of justice, accountability, and integrity; identifying the roots of injustice; cultivating relationships among activists; and welcoming difference. In focusing on coalitions related to energy and climate justice, Grosse provides important models for bridging divides to reach common goals. These lessons are more relevant than ever.
 
  • Price: $29.95
  • Pages: 272
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • Publication Date: 12th July 2022
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • Illustrations Note: 18 b-w art
  • ISBN: 9780520388413
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
    SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change
    SCIENCE / Energy
    SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Corrie Grosse is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, where she teaches, researches, and organizes at the intersection of energy and climate justice. 
Contents

Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction

1. The Energy and Political Landscape: Climate Crisis, Extreme Energy, and the 
Climate Justice Movement

2. The Organizing Landscape: Research Context

3. Idaho Part 1: Talking across Political Lines by Building Relationships 

4. Idaho Part 2: Talking across Political Lines by Agreeing to Disagree

5. Working across Intersectional Lines: Youth Values and Relationships

6. Working across Organizational Lines: Grassroots and Grasstops Tensions and 
Possibilities

7. Two Tales of Struggle: Coalition Building against Big Oil

8. Lessons from Measure P and the Megaloads: Native–Non-Native and Latinx-White 
Coalition Outcomes 

Conclusion 

Notes 
Bibliography
Index