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Acknowledgments

As much as I would like to take full credit for this project, it turns out that researching, writing, and publishing a book is always a collective effort. I am indebted to a great number of people for sharing their ideas, criticisms, guidance, and labors to make this work possible. Students who provided me with critical assistance along the way include: Marjan Abubo, Mark Avalos, Reid Bongard, Martha Escobar, Sheila Estrada, Denise Garcia, Erin Hoekstra, Sanna King, Rebecca Kinney, Annie Milburn, Ivan Rodriguez, Alison Thompson, Ashkaun Shaterian, Yue (Rachel) Shen, and Amy Tam.

I want to thank my colleagues, students, and friends at UCSB who have warmly welcomed me into the Santa Barbara community with open arms and so much support. They include: Peter Alagona, Celia Alario, Javiera Barandiaran, Vilna Bashi-Treitler, Joe Blankholm, Eileen Boris, Angela Boyd, Oliver Chadwick, Alenda Chang, Grace Chang, Maria Charles, Jia-Ching Chen, Jordan Clark, Mariah Brennan Clegg, David Cleveland, Carla D’Antonio, Mona Damluji, Hilal Elver, Richard Falk (who gave me really helpful feedback on chapter 4), Ingrid Feeney, Richard Flacks, John Foran, Diane Fujino, Helene Gardner, Hunter Gelbach, Avery Gordon, Corrie Grosse, Hahrie Han, Robert Heilmayr, Cami Helmuth, Ken Hiltner, Cheryl Hutton, Melody Jue, Terence Keel, Ed Keller, Zachary King, Renan LaRue, Theo LeQuesne, Mel Manalis, Matto Mildenberger, Dena Montague, Erinn O’Shea, Michelle Oyewole, Sameer Pandya, Tristan Partridge, Simone Pulver, Martin Rodriguez, Josh Schimel, Daniela Soleri, Jeffrey Stewart, Leah Stokes, Susan Stonich, Ra Thea, Jennifer Tyburczy, Richard Widick, Bob Wilkinson, Emily Williams, and Eric Zimmerman.

A big thanks to friends and colleagues at the University of Minnesota (Cawo Abdi, Ron Aminzade, Liz Boyle, Bruce Braun, Vinay Gidwani, Michael Goldman, Teresa Gowan, George Henderson, and Rachel Schurman), the University of California at Davis (Thomas Beamish, Vicky Smith, Julie Sze, Jonathan London, Lindsey Dillon, Jacque Leaver, and Ingrid Behrsin), Vanderbilt University (David Hess, Zdravka Tzankova, Holly McCammon, André Christie-Mizell, Rachel McKane, Anna Jacobs, Magdalena Sudibjo, Lacee Satcher, Larry Isaac, Kate Pride Brown, Lijun Song, and Anne Wall), and the University of Michigan (Dorceta Taylor, Rebecca Hardin, Sonia Joshi, Ivette Perfecto, and Paul Mohai) for offering space to share and receive feedback on many of the ideas contained in this volume.

Colleagues spread far and wide across the country who were also instrumental in this effort include Hollie Nyseth-Brehm, Joni Adamson, Kari Norgaard, Shannon Bell, Julian Agyeman, Traci Brynne Voyles, Laura Pulido, Sylvia Hood Washington, Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Manuel Vallee, Beatrice Frank, Brian Mayer, J. Timmons Roberts, David Takeuchi, Sara Bruya, Yonette Thomas, Samantha Teixeira, Mia White, Anthony Nocella II, Ryan Holifield, Panagioti Tsolkas, and Mike Ewall.

And at Polity Press, my editor Jonathan Skerrett and Editorial Assistant Amy Williams have been wonderful partners throughout this process, and I am grateful to the extraordinary anonymous reviewers of the manuscript, and Ann Klefstad for her outstanding copy editing. I also have to extend a big thank you to Emma Longstaff who, while at Polity some years back, extended a generous invitation to me and came up with the initial idea that eventually resulted in this book.

Dedication

What is Critical Environmental Justice?

Acknowledgments