Environmental justice poetics : cultural representations of environmental racism from Chicanas and women in India / Kamala Joyce Platt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platt, Kamala Joyce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism in literature.

Social justice in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

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 women's work intervenes in patriarchal assumptions. Focus on marginalized areas in India and a U.S. movement led by people of color, defies racisms, and promotes vigilance against structural violence that permeates across political spectrums. Striving for environmental justice is not just community work, merely academic, or trendy art, performance, or literature. Environmental justice work demands interdisciplinary, transnational, transcommunity sharing, many border crossings and solid alliance-building. Chicanas and women in India engaged in such activities generate a rich cultural poetics-a transformative vision of environmental equity, ecological and civic wellbeing, and calming climate.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-104157-3