Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger (University of California Press, January 2020), by American studies professor Julie Sze, examines mobilizations and movements from protests at Standing Rock to activism in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. The book looks at dispossession, deregulation, privatization and inequality with cautiously hopeful stories

Julie Sze is a Professor of American Studies at UC Davis. She is also the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project for UC Davis’ John Muir Institute for the Environment. Sze's research investigates environmental justice and environmental inequality; culture and environment; race, gender and power; and urban/community health and activism.  

Professor Sze has published 3 sole authored books, edited a collection, and written over 60 journal articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics, primarily in the fields of environmental studies and the environmental humanities, geography, and public policy. She works in collaboration with environmental scientists, engineers, social scientists, humanists and community-based organizers in California and New York.

View the book at the University of California Press