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How histories of environmental inequalities and settler colonialism undercut a famously “green” region

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Urban Cascadia and the Green Imaginary

Nik Janos and Corina McKendry

Part 1. Urbanization

Chapter 1. Dwelling with the Entwined Ecotopian and Techno-utopian Legacies of Cascadia

Jeffrey C. Sanders

Chapter 2. The Making of Urban Cascadia: Extending Urbanization through Airplanes, Software, and Infrastructure

Nik Janos

Chapter 3. Infrastructural Wilderness: Seattle and the Binding of City and Region

Thaisa Way and Ken P. Yocom

Chapter 4. Urbanization and Water Governance Dynamics in Bend and Hood River, Oregon

Alida Cantor and Alexander Reid Ross

Part 2: Inequalities

Chapter 5. Tales of Three Cities: Urban History, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Survivance in Seattle, Vancouver, and Victoria

Coll Thrush

Chapter 6. A History of Puyallup Fishing Resistance

Danica Miller

Chapter 7. Our River, Our Future: More-Than-Local Grassroots Activism in the Portland Harbor

Erin Goodling

Chapter 8. The Progressive Promise of Reconcilliation in Vancouver's Northeast False Creek

Giuseppe Tolfo

Part 3. Governance

Chapter 9. Against "Seattle-ization": Housing Justice and Activism in the Age of Amazon

Jannifer L. Rice

Chapter 10. Conflicting Sustainabilities and the Limits of Localized Green Governance

Corina McKendry

Chapter 11. Ecological Democracy and the Duwamish River Cleanup

Mark Purcell

Chapter 12. Drawing the Thin Green Line: Throwing a Wrench in Carbon Commodity Chains

Corina McKendry and Nik Janos

Conclusion

Nik Janos and Corina McKendry

List of Contributors

Index

About the Author

Nik Janos is associate professor of sociology at California State University, Chico. Corina McKendry is associate professor of political science and environmental studies at Colorado College.

Reviews

"A delightful new contribution to the growing debate on urban political ecology (UPE), especially as it is interested in environmental justice concerns, and at the same time a definitive portrait of a region that has long looked coherent to its residents for ecological, historical, geographical, cultural, and political reasons, but has now gained a clear profile beyond the region itself...Janos and McKendry's book ultimately presents Cascadia as a—materially humid, watery, and rainy—source of powerful concepts and ideas that have already been formative and will be generative in UPE conversations in years to come." (The AAG Review of Books) "...an excellent volume because it's written in a way that makes it accessible for undergraduates, it will be especially useful for faculty teaching classes in urbanization, regional planning, sustainable design, environmental justice, and/or environmental studies." (Journal of Environment Studies and Sciences)