Power and public participation in a hazardous waste dispute: A community case study

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 99-114

  Culley, Marci R ^a   Hughey, Joseph ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazardous waste; Power; Public participation; Qualitative case study

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; CONSUMER; DECISION MAKING; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; POLICY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DECISION MAKING; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MISSOURI; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PUBLIC POLICY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 40149100802     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10464-007-9157-5     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Adler, P. A., & Adler, P. (1998). Observational techniques. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Collecting and interpreting qualitative materials. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2. Agency for Toxic Substances, Disease Registry, ATSDR. (2000). Petitioned health consultation: Surface water and sediment data review. (CERCLIS NO. MOD007161425). Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
3. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, ATSDR. (1999). Petitioned public health assessment: Amoco oil company, sugar creek, jackson county, missouri. (CERCLIS NO. MOD007161425), Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
4. Amoco/TriTechnics Corporation. (2000). West bluffs area investigation work plan: Amoco former refinery, Sugar Creek, Missouri. Prepared by TriTechnics Corporation for Amoco for submission to EPA, July 19, 2000.
5. Amoco/ThermoRetec Consulting Corporation. (1999). Norledge area investigation report: Amoco former refinery, Sugar Creek, Missouri. Prepared by ThermoRetec Consulting Corporation for Amoco for submission to EPA, December 22, 1999.
6. Amoco/TriTechnics Corporation. (1995). Draft RCRA facility investigation report: Amoco former refinery, Sugar Creek, Missouri. Prepared by TriTechnics for Amoco Corporation for submission to EPA, December 18, 1995.
7. Angelique, H. L. On power, psychopolitical validity and play. Journal of Community Psychology (in press).
8. Angelique, H. L., & Culley, M. R. (2007). History and theories of community psychology in the US: Returning to political, critical and ecological roots. In M. Riemer, I. Prilleltensky, M. Montero, & S. Reich (Eds.), International community psychology: History and theories. Kluwer.
9. Aronoff, M., & Gunter, V. (1994). A pound of cure: Facilitating participatory process in technological hazard disputes. Society and Natural Resources, 7, 235-252.
10. Bachrach, P., & Baratz, M. S. (1970). Power and poverty: Theory and practice. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
11. Bachrach, P., & Baratz, M. S. (1962). The two faces of power. American Political Science Review, 56, 947-952.
12. Berg, B. L. (1989). Qualitative research methods for the social sciences. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
13. Bronfenbrenner, U. (1977). Toward an experimental ecology of human development. American Psychologist, 32, 513-531.
14. Brown, P., & Mikkelsen, E. J. (1990). No safe place: Toxic waste, leukemia, and community action. Berkeley: University of California Press.
15. Carnes, S. A., Schweitzer, M., Peelle, E. B., Wolfe, A. K., & Munro, J. F. (1998). Measuring the success of public participation on environmental restoration and waste management activities in the U.S. department of energy. Technology in Society, 20, 385-406.
16. Couch, S. R., Kroll-Smith, S., & Wilson, J. P. (1997). Toxic contamination and alienation: Community disorder and the individual. Research in Community Sociology, 7, 95-115.
17. Culley, M. R. (2004). Power and 'official' vehicles for public participation in a local hazardous waste setting: A community case study. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. University of Missouri-Kansas City.
18. Culley, M. R., & Angelique, H. L. (2003). Women's gendered experiences as longterm Three Mile Island activists. Gender & Society, 17, 445-461.
19. Cuthbertson, B. H., & Nigg, J. M. (1987). Technological disaster and the nontherapeutic community: A question of true victimization. Environment and Behavior, 19, 462-483.
20. Cvetkovich, G., & Earle, T. C. (1994). The construction of justice: A case study of public participation in land management. Journal of Social Issues, 50, 161-178.
21. Dahl, R. A. (1969). The concept of power. In R. Bell, D. M. Edwards, & R. H. Wagner (Eds.), Political power: A reader in theory and research. New York, NY: Free Press.
22. Davidson, L. M., & Baum, A. (1991). Victimization and self-blame following a technological disaster. In S. R. Couch & J. S. Kroll-Smith (Eds.), Communities at risk: Collective responses to technological hazards (pp. 33-52). New York, NY: Peter Lang.
23. Denzin, N. K., & Lincoln, Y. S. (1998). Introduction: Entering the field of qualitative research. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.) Collecting and interpreting qualitative materials. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
24. Dobson, P. (1999). No longer a company town: An environmental nightmare stalks sugar creek. Kansas City Pitch Weekly, 594, 14-19.
25. Edelstein, M. (1988). Contaminated communities: The social and psychological impacts of residential toxic exposure. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
26. Edelstein, M., & Wandersman, A. (1987). Community dynamics in coping with toxic exposure. In I. Altman & A. Wandersman (Eds.), Neighborhood and community environments, volume 9 in the series human behavior and the environment (pp. 69-112). New York, NY: Plenum Press.
27. Erikson, K. (1994). A new species of trouble: Explorations in disaster, trauma, and community. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
28. Fiorino, D. J. (1996). Environmental policy and the participation gap. In W. M Lafferty & J. Meadowcroft (Eds.) Democracy and the environment: Problems and prospects (pp. 194-212). Chethenham, UK: Etwarth.
29. Fioriono, D. J. (1990). Citizen participation and environmental risk: A survey of institutional mechanisms. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 15, 226-243.
30. Franklin-Ramirez, L., & Steinbach, J. (1997). Deadly radiation hazards U.S.A, (4th ed.). Washington, DC: Nuclear Information Resource Service.
31. Freire, P. (1968). Pedagogy for the oppressed. New York, NY: Herder and Herder.
32. Freudenburg, W. R. (1997). Contamination, corrosion, and the social order: An overview. Current Sociology, 45, 19-40.
33. Gaventa, J. (1980). Power and powerlessness: Quiescence and rebellion in an appalacian valley. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
34. Gould, K. A. (1992). Putting the (w)raps on public participation: Remedial action planning and working-class power in the great lakes. Sociological Practice Review, 3, 133-139.
35. Gould, K. A. (1991). The sweet smell of money: Economic dependency and local environmental political mobilization. Society and Natural Resources, 4, 133-150.
36. Himmelman, A. T. (2001). On coalitions and the transformation of power relation: Collaborative betterment and collaborative empowerment. American Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 277-285.
37. Horton, M., & Freire, P. (1990). We make the road by walking: Conversations on education and social change. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
38. Kelly, J. G. (1987). An ecological paradigm: Defining mental health consultation as a preventative service. Prevention in the Human Services, 4, 1-36.
39. Kelly, J. G. (1966). Ecological constraints of mental health services. American Psychologist, 21, 535-539.
40. Kruckeberg, D., & Starck, K. (1988). Public relations and community: A reconstructed theory. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers.
41. Levine, A. G. (1982). Love canal: Science, politics, and people. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
42. Lincoln, Y. S., & Guba, E. G. (1985). Naturalistic inquiry. Beverly, Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
43. Lincoln, Y. S., & Guba, E. G. (1998). Competing paradigms in qualitative research. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.) The landscape of qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
44. Lowry, R. C. (1998). All hazardous waste politics is local: Grass-roots advocacy and public participation in siting and cleanup disputes. Policy Studies Journal, 26, 748-759.
45. Lukes, S. (1974). Power: A radical view. London: Macmillan Press, Ltd.
46. Miles, M. B., & Huberman, A. M. (1989). Qualitative data analysis. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
47. Molotch, H. (1970). Oil in santa barbara and power in America. Sociological Inquiry, 40, 131-144.
48. Mulvey, A. (2000). Stories of relative privilege: Power and social change in feminist community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology, 28, 883-912.
49. Newbrough, J. R. (1995). Toward community: A third position. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23, 9-37.
50. Parenti, M. (1978). Power and the powerless. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
51. Peterson, N. A., & Zimmerman, M. (2004). Beyond the individual: Toward a nomological network of organizational empowerment. American Journal of Community Psychology, 34, 129-143.
52. Prilleltensky, I. (2001). Value-based praxis in community psychology: Moving toward social justice and social action. American Journal of Community Psychology, 29, 747-749.
53. Prilleltensky, I. (2003). Understanding, overcoming and resisting oppression: Toward psychopolitical validity. American Journal of Community Psychology, 31, 195-203.
54. Rappaport, J. (1987). Terms of empowerment/exemplars of prevention: Toward a theory for community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology, 15, 121-144.
55. Rich, R. C., Edelstein, M., Hallman, W. K., & Wandersman, A. H. (1995). Citizen participation and empowerment: The case of local environmental hazards. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23, 657-676.
56. Salem, D. A., Reischl, T., & Gallacher, F. (2000). The role of referent and expert power in mutual help. American Journal of Community Psychology, 28, 303-325.
57. Seidman, E. (1988). Back to the future, community psychology: Unfolding a theory of social intervention. American Journal of Community Psychology, 16, 3-24.
58. Speer, P., Ontkush, M., Schmitt, B., Raman, P., Jackson, C., Rengert, K. M., & Peterson, N. A. (2003). The intentional exercise of power: Community organizing in Camden, New Jersey. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 13, 399-408.
59. Speer, P. W., & Hughey, J. B. (1995). Community organizing: An ecological route to empowerment and power. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23, 729-748.
60. Steelman, T. A., & Ascher, W. (1997). Public involvement in natural resource policy making: Advantages, disadvantages and trade-offs. Policy Sciences, 30, 71-90.
61. Swift, C. F. (1992). Empowerment: The greening of prevention. In M. Kessler, S. E. Goldston, & J. M. Joffe (Eds.), The present and future of prevention. In honor of George W. Albee (pp. 99-111). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
62. Szasz, A., & Meuser, M. (1997). Public participation in the cleanup of contaminated military facilities: Democratization or anticipatory cooptation. International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, 34, 211-233.
63. Trickett, E. J. (1984). Toward a distinctive community psychology: An ecological metaphor for the conduct of community research and the nature of training. American Journal of Community Psychology, 12, 261-280.
64. United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2001). National Biennial RCRA Hazardous Waste Report. Washington, DC: Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
65. United States Environmental Protection Agency Region VII. (2000). Surface soil sampling report for properties near the former amoco refinery. Unpublished report prepared by TetraTech EM, Inc. for EPA Region VII, April 12, 2000.
66. United States Environmental Protection Agency. (1994). Generation and management of conditionally exempt small quantity generators (CESQG) waste. Washington, DC: Office of Solid Waste, Municipal and Industrial Solid Waste Division.
67. Yin, R. K. (1994). Case study research: Design and methods, (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.