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Addressing Environmental and Food Justice toward Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Poisoning and Imprisoning Youth
This cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements. While many schools, community organizers, professors, politicians, unions, teachers, parents, youth, social workers, and youth advocates are focusing on curriculum, discipline policies, policing practices, incarceration demographics, and diversity of staff, the authors of this book argue that even if all those issues are addressed, healthy food and living environment are fundamental to the emancipation of youth. This book is for anyone who wants to truly understand the school to prison pipeline as well as those interested in peace, social justice, environmentalism, racial justice, youth advocacy, transformative justice, food, veganism, and economic justice.
199 pages, Hardcover
Published July 19, 2016
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About the author
Anthony J. Nocella II
52 books32 followersAnthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., award-winning author, community organizer, and educator is a Visiting Professor in the School of Education at Hamline University and Senior Fellow of the Dispute Resolution Institute at the Hamline Law School. Nocella is a scholar-activist grounded in the field of education and peace and conflict studies. He is internationally known for his innovative, transformative, and intersectional collaborations among fields of study, social movements, scholars, communities, and activists.
Dr. Nocella has published more than fifty scholarly articles or book chapters, co-founded more than ten active political organizations and serves on four boards. He has founded three book series and co-founded three journals - Green Theory and Praxis, Peace Studies Journal, and Journal of Critical Animal Studies, is on the editorial board of three other journals, and has published more than fifteen books.
Dr. Nocella has guest lectured, provided professional development trainings, and facilitated youth workshops to hundreds of school districts, universities, colleges, high schools, middle schools and many prisons and detention facilities around the Americas, such as Onondaga County School District, St. Cloud School District, Hillbrook Youth Detention Facility, Auburn Prison, Environmental Protection Agency, Brock University, UCLA, Hofstra University, New York University Law School, Rutgers University Law School, Boston College, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, University of Texas, Yale University, and Princeton University.
Areas of Expertise: social justice education, school to prison pipeline, urban education, cultural relevant pedagogy, critical pedagogy, disability studies/pedagogy, environmental education/justice, ecopedagogy, youth culture, transformative justice, hip hop studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical animal studies, eco-ability, justice studies, and peace and conflict studies.
Dr. Nocella has published more than fifty scholarly articles or book chapters, co-founded more than ten active political organizations and serves on four boards. He has founded three book series and co-founded three journals - Green Theory and Praxis, Peace Studies Journal, and Journal of Critical Animal Studies, is on the editorial board of three other journals, and has published more than fifteen books.
Dr. Nocella has guest lectured, provided professional development trainings, and facilitated youth workshops to hundreds of school districts, universities, colleges, high schools, middle schools and many prisons and detention facilities around the Americas, such as Onondaga County School District, St. Cloud School District, Hillbrook Youth Detention Facility, Auburn Prison, Environmental Protection Agency, Brock University, UCLA, Hofstra University, New York University Law School, Rutgers University Law School, Boston College, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, University of Texas, Yale University, and Princeton University.
Areas of Expertise: social justice education, school to prison pipeline, urban education, cultural relevant pedagogy, critical pedagogy, disability studies/pedagogy, environmental education/justice, ecopedagogy, youth culture, transformative justice, hip hop studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical animal studies, eco-ability, justice studies, and peace and conflict studies.
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February 5, 2026
2 stars
short review for busy readers:
Mostly very academic, narrowly-focused papers that will not be of much interest to the lay reader unless they work in public education, law or environmental justice. The papers assume a lot of specialist background knowledge when presenting and detailing research.
in detail:
While the topics covered in this book are important, that importance is largely obscured by the dense academic word bramble the chapters are written in. There are some interesting facts and you can learn a little, but for the general lay reader, they will most likely be incomprehensible or extremely boring.
The last two articles are, thankfully!, written in human language. I had assumed, or wanted, the entire book to be written like these articles.
contents:
Introduction: From Addressing the Problems
to the Solutions of the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Through a Food and Environmental Justice Perspective
Part I Transforming the School System
2 They Got Me Trapped: Structural Inequality and Racism
in Space and Place Within Urban School System Design
3 The Rochester River School: Humane Education to
Confront Educational Injustice and the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Rochester, New York
4 Where We Live, Play, and Study: Assessing Multiple Adverse Impacts of Schools Near Environmental Hazards
5 Race and Access to Green Space
6 Education that Supports All Students: Food Sovereignty and Urban Education in Detroit
Part II Transforming the Criminal Justice System
7 An Environmental Justice Critique of Carceral Anti-ecology
8 Industrialized Bodies: Women, Food, and Environmental Justice in the Criminal Justice System
9 Mothers, Toxicity, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
10 Hip Hop, Food Justice, and Environmental Justice
Afterword
short review for busy readers:
Mostly very academic, narrowly-focused papers that will not be of much interest to the lay reader unless they work in public education, law or environmental justice. The papers assume a lot of specialist background knowledge when presenting and detailing research.
in detail:
While the topics covered in this book are important, that importance is largely obscured by the dense academic word bramble the chapters are written in. There are some interesting facts and you can learn a little, but for the general lay reader, they will most likely be incomprehensible or extremely boring.
The last two articles are, thankfully!, written in human language. I had assumed, or wanted, the entire book to be written like these articles.
contents:
Introduction: From Addressing the Problems
to the Solutions of the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Through a Food and Environmental Justice Perspective
Part I Transforming the School System
2 They Got Me Trapped: Structural Inequality and Racism
in Space and Place Within Urban School System Design
3 The Rochester River School: Humane Education to
Confront Educational Injustice and the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Rochester, New York
4 Where We Live, Play, and Study: Assessing Multiple Adverse Impacts of Schools Near Environmental Hazards
5 Race and Access to Green Space
6 Education that Supports All Students: Food Sovereignty and Urban Education in Detroit
Part II Transforming the Criminal Justice System
7 An Environmental Justice Critique of Carceral Anti-ecology
8 Industrialized Bodies: Women, Food, and Environmental Justice in the Criminal Justice System
9 Mothers, Toxicity, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
10 Hip Hop, Food Justice, and Environmental Justice
Afterword
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