Failing to grow "their" own justice? The co-production of racial/gendered labor and Milwaukee's urban forest

Urban Geography

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 732-754

  Heynen, Nik ^a   Perkins, Harold A ^b   Roy, Parama ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Labor; Milwaukee; Race; Urban environments

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER RELATIONS; LABOR MARKET; RACIAL SEGREGATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; URBAN FORESTRY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

MILWAUKEE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 38849165284     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.28.8.732     Document Type: Article

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