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How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis of climate justice coalitions in California and I...
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How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? 

Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis of climate justice coalitions in California and Idaho—two states with distinct fossil fuel histories, environmental contexts, and political cultures. Drawing on ethnographic evidence from 106 in-depth interviews and three years of participant observation, Corrie Grosse investigates the ways people build effective energy justice coalitions across differences in political views, race and ethnicity, age, and strategic preferences. This book argues for four practices that are critical for movement building: focusing on core values of justice, accountability, and integrity; identifying the roots of injustice; cultivating relationships among activists; and welcoming difference. In focusing on coalitions related to energy and climate justice, Grosse provides important models for bridging divides to reach common goals. These lessons are more relevant than ever.
 
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Price: $29.95
Pages: 272
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 12 July 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520388413
Format: Paperback
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Corrie Grosse is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, where she teaches, researches, and organizes at the intersection of energy and climate justice. 
Contents

Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction

1. The Energy and Political Landscape: Climate Crisis, Extreme Energy, and the 
Climate Justice Movement

2. The Organizing Landscape: Research Context

3. Idaho Part 1: Talking across Political Lines by Building Relationships 

4. Idaho Part 2: Talking across Political Lines by Agreeing to Disagree

5. Working across Intersectional Lines: Youth Values and Relationships

6. Working across Organizational Lines: Grassroots and Grasstops Tensions and 
Possibilities

7. Two Tales of Struggle: Coalition Building against Big Oil

8. Lessons from Measure P and the Megaloads: Native–Non-Native and Latinx-White 
Coalition Outcomes 

Conclusion 

Notes 
Bibliography
Index