Based on case studies, the book creates a multidisciplinary conversation
on the gendered vulnerabilities resulting from extractive industries and
toxic pollution, and also charts the resilience and courage of women as
they resist polluting industries, fight for clean water and seek to
protect the land. While ecumenical in scope, the book takes its
departure from the concept of integral ecology introduced in Pope
Francis' encyclical Laudato Si'.
The first three sections of the book focus on the social and ecological
challenges facing minoritized women and their communities that are
related to mining, pollutants and biodiversity loss, and toxicity. The
final section of the book focuses on the possibilities and obstacles to
global solidarity. All chapters offer a cross disciplinary response to a
particular local situation, tracing the ways ecological destruction,
resulting from extraction and toxic contamination, affects the lives of
women and their communities. The book pays careful attention to the
political, economic, and legal structures facilitating these
life-threatening challenges. Each section concludes with a response from
a 'practitioner' in the field, representing an ecclesial organization or
NGO focused on eco-justice advocacy in the global South, or minority
communities in the global North.