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Steelwater, Eliza K. McGurty, Eileen Maura 2011-05-07T12:47:19Z 2011-05-07T12:47:19Z 10000-01-01 1995 "By seeking to ameliorate environmental problems while also working to alleviate poverty and oppression, the construct of environmental justice has transformed environmental activism and altered the national environmental agenda. The controversy over the Warren County landfill is seen as the birth place of the environmental justice movement. Despite the importance assigned to Warren County, there has been no thorough analysis of the events. In this study, I analyze the Warren County events using a social movement theory which integrates issues of strategy and identity. I show that when the mostly white opposition changed their strategy to direct action and needed assistance from seasoned civil rights activists, the political and cultural context of Warren County created the necessary ingredients for this unlikely alliance. As a result of the alliance, the collective action frame changed from ""Not In My Backyard"" (NIMBY) to ""environmental racism."" The fear of loosing local control over a land use decision was the conceptual link between the broad injustice frame of environmental racism and the earlier, more narrow, NIMBY frame. Environmental racism was the catalyst to the more elaborative master frame of environmental justice which brought into question the entire hazardous waste policy." Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:47:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9624433.pdf: 9634851 bytes, checksum: daaa94382da6c311c02bd014c08b7ddb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1995 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:45:48Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:20:22-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9624433 (UMI)AAI9624433 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20719 eng Copyright 1995 McGurty, Eileen Maura History, United States Political Science, General Sociology, Social Structure and Development Environmental Sciences Urban and Regional Planning The construction of environmental justice: Warren County, North Carolina text Urban and Regional Planning Regional Planning University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.