Faculty Advisor
Sousa, David
Area of Study
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Publication Date
Summer 2018
Abstract
Transportation infrastructure provides an excellent lens through which to look at environmental justice. There is legislation in place that should prevent or at least draw significant attention to environmental justice, yet new freeways are still being proposed which continue to commit the same environmental injustices as decades past. With grassroots opposition as a primary form of resistance, this paper investigates the tools available to activists, as well as the ones most effective in ensuring success of the movement. I also consider what accounts for the difference in outcomes of resistance movements, why some community movements are successful in stopping a project or securing adequate mitigation measures while others are not. Is this difference in outcomes due to actions by the activists, factors out of their control, or a combination of both? And what can be learned from these successes and failures that can help inform future community anti-freeway efforts?
Recommended Citation
Wampler, Molly, "Environmental Justice Activism Against Freeway Proposals in Contemporary America" (2018). Summer Research. 335.
https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/summer_research/335
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University of Puget Sound
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