"I Remember the Mental Chaos While They Tried To Seal the Well and Clean Up the Oil Spill – How Much Fear and Uncertainty Everyone Felt": An interview with Marylee and Michael Orr, Louisiana Environmental Action Network. (November 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "I Remember the Mental Chaos While They Tried To Seal the Well and Clean Up the Oil Spill – How Much Fear and Uncertainty Everyone Felt": An interview with Marylee and Michael Orr, Louisiana Environmental Action Network. (November 2018)
- Main Title:
- "I Remember the Mental Chaos While They Tried To Seal the Well and Clean Up the Oil Spill – How Much Fear and Uncertainty Everyone Felt": An interview with Marylee and Michael Orr, Louisiana Environmental Action Network
- Authors:
- Sullivan, John
Rosenberg, Beth - Other Names:
- Sullivan John guest-editor.
- Abstract:
- In this interview, Marylee Orr and her son, Michael Orr, of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (Baton Rouge, LA) recall the massive trauma among fishing families (including those whose boats were used in the clean-up effort) caused by the Deep Water Horizon spill, the state and federal closures of fishing grounds, and the moratorium on oil exploration and production activity during the clean-up efforts. They recount the history of their organization's vision and growth, their role in regional environmental justice efforts, and outline how they developed an approach to rapid response community empowerment based on colearning, respect, consensus, and action—a vision that parallels the work of Paulo Freire and the practice values of community-based participatory research. They discuss the collaborative seafood sampling site map and toxicology primer they built and archived as a key community partner of the Gulf Coast Health Alliance: Health Risks Related to the Macondo Spill Project.
- Is Part Of:
- New solutions. Volume 28:Number 3(2018)
- Journal:
- New solutions
- Issue:
- Volume 28:Number 3(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 28, Issue 3 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0028-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 467
- Page End:
- 486
- Publication Date:
- 2018-11
- Subjects:
- Deep Water Horizon oil spill -- Louisiana Environmental Action Network -- Gulf Coast fishing communities -- environmental justice
Environmental health -- Periodicals
Environmental health -- Government policy -- United States -- Periodicals
Industrial hygiene -- Periodicals
Industrial hygiene -- Government policy -- United States -- Periodicals
613.62 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202402 ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1048291118795154 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1048-2911
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 8751.xml