Environmental Justice Poetics : : Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India / / Kamala Joyce Platt.
This book is an interdisciplinary comparative investigation of activist, artistic, literary, and academic discourse—expressive work promoting ecological justice, ending racism, and representing self and community through virtual realism—a cultural poetics of environmental justice. Research fixed on...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVIII, 391 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: Cultural Poetics in Environmental Justice Movements: Organization, Theories, and Resistance in India and Greater Mexico
- 1 Building Movements, Building Theory: Organizing, Resistance and Social Environmentalism
- 2 Environmental Justice: Coining a New Social Movement
- 3 Narratives of Social Environmentalism: Environmental Justice, Transformative Culture, Narmada Bachao Andolan and People Organized in Defense of the Earth and her Resources (PODER)
- 4 Mothers in the Hood: Latinas Serve and Protect East L.A.
- 5 Chipko: Human(e) Arms to Defend Lifestyle and Environment
- 6 Bhopal: Writing Tragedy as Ultimatum for Change
- 7 Representing Bhopal
- Part II: Women Write Environmental Justice: The Literary Tradition in India and Greater Mexico
- 8 So Close to the United States: Environmental Injustice and the Death of Fe in the “Land of Enchantment”
- 9 India’s Forests and the Interconnected Legacies of Environmental Degradation and Colonialism
- 10 Chicana/o Poetics: Farm Workers United Against Pesticides and City Dwellers Organized Against Toxins
- 11 A Farm Worker’s Blue Cape: Testimonio and Teatro
- 12 Mahasweta Devi’s Short Stories: Tribal and Peasant Peoples in Environmental Struggles in Bihar and Bengal
- 13 Contested Seeds and Imaginary Maps
- Epilogue: The Pedagogical Implications of Studying Environmental Justice Literary and Cultural Poetics
- Afterword: Environmental Justice Cultural Poetics, a Blueprint for Climate Justice
- Works Cited and Selected Bibliography
- Index