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Ingrid R.G. Waldron: There's Something in the Water (Paperback, 2018, Fernwood Publishing) 3 stars

In There's Something In The Water, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental …

Not really suitable as a first introduction to environmental racism

3 stars

TBH, I found this really hard going. The earlier chapters used an academic style that I found hard to follow, while some of the later chapters seemed to consist of a literature survey, but without a real sense of synthesis tying it together. Probably the best part of the book was the conclusion, in which Waldron returned to the Nova Scotia communities in which she'd done her research. I think the book would be valuable to return to after gaining a background in critical environmental justice, to cover some of the specifics of the Canadian experience, but I was hoping to get an introduction to the topic of environmental racism and this wasn't really it.