The elsewhere is black : ecological violence and improvised life / Marisa Solomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solomon, Marisa, 1986- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental racism--Atlantic Coast (U.S.).

Environmental racism.

Environmental justice--Atlantic Coast (U.S.).

Environmental justice.

Refuse and refuse disposal--Atlantic Coast (U.S.).

Refuse and refuse disposal.

Environmental health--Atlantic Coast (U.S.).

Environmental health.

Minorities--Health aspects--Atlantic Coast (U.S.).

Minorities.

Minorities--Health and hygiene--Atlantic Coast (U.S.).

Political ecology--Atlantic Coast (U.S.).

Political ecology.

United States--Race relations--Economic aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"The Elsewhere is Black considers the durability of racism and Black relationships with ecological waste through a consideration of New York City's trash and its transits through the Eastern Seaboard to Tidewater Virginia. This movement is emblematic of toxicity's movement more generally through soil and bodies, the placement of landfills, waste infrastructure, and the technocratic planning and management of Black life and death. The book emphasizes that property's ecological violence is a form of racialized environmental control. More than pointing to acute sites of toxicity, Marisa Solomon theorizes the relationship between the devaluation of land, Black and more-than-human life to reveal how Black life is held captive by multiple forms of risk: the risk of poisoning, the risk of police violence, the risk of dispossession, the risks of poverty. It also gives lie to the common image of Black life as existing in an urban environment outside of nature-social relations while also being itself naturalized. In this construction, Blackness operates as waste does-an excess of urban life that is tolerated but policed. Attentive to the ways coloniality and anti-blackness are sedimented into the landscape, Solomon focuses on how Black improvisation with waste's form and meaning upend environmental thinking-including the raced, classed, and gendered stewards to whom the earth supposedly belongs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introducing the Elsewhere

Flow

Toxic Capture

Infrastructure

Becoming Fill

Surplus

Revisions from Elsewhere

Disposal

Black Refractions

Junk

Fictions of Fabulous/Fabulative Ethnography

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Solomon, Marisa, 1986- Elsewhere is black.

ISBN:

9781478061304

1478061308

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.