Remaking 'the people': Immigrant farmworkers, environmental justice and the rise of environmental populism in California's San Joaquin Valley
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Priya R Chandrasekaran
- Source
- Journal of Rural Studies
- Subject
- Environmental justice
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Sociology and Political Science
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05 social sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
Immigration
0211 other engineering and technologies
0507 social and economic geography
021107 urban & regional planning
02 engineering and technology
Development
Local governance
Racism
Economic Justice
Article
Populism
Political science
Ethnology
San Joaquin
050703 geography
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- Language
- ISSN
- 0743-0167
Highlights • Political disenfranchisement and racism form the bedrock of rural California geography. • Environmental justice organizing has built a progressive base in the San Joaquin Valley. • Control over local governance can scale up and strengthen environmental justice. • Opposing populisms in Kern County, CA are situated distinctly in neoliberal crisis. • Resistance to farmworker disposability is being expressed in environmental terms.