3 Narratives of Social Environmentalism: Environmental Justice, Transformative Culture, Narmada Bachao Andolan and People Organized in Defense of the Earth and her Resources (PODER)

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents IX
4. Preface XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Cultural Poetics in Environmental Justice Movements: Organization, Theories, and Resistance in India and Greater Mexico
7. 1 Building Movements, Building Theory: Organizing, Resistance and Social Environmentalism 21
8. 2 Environmental Justice: Coining a New Social Movement 33
9. 3 Narratives of Social Environmentalism: Environmental Justice, Transformative Culture, Narmada Bachao Andolan and People Organized in Defense of the Earth and her Resources (PODER) 55
10. 4 Mothers in the Hood: Latinas Serve and Protect East L.A. 83
11. 5 Chipko: Human(e) Arms to Defend Lifestyle and Environment 105
12. 6 Bhopal: Writing Tragedy as Ultimatum for Change 135
13. 7 Representing Bhopal 171
14. Part II: Women Write Environmental Justice: The Literary Tradition in India and Greater Mexico
15. 8 So Close to the United States: Environmental Injustice and the Death of Fe in the “Land of Enchantment” 217
16. 9 India’s Forests and the Interconnected Legacies of Environmental Degradation and Colonialism 245
17. 10 Chicana/o Poetics: Farm Workers United Against Pesticides and City Dwellers Organized Against Toxins 265
18. 11 A Farm Worker’s Blue Cape: Testimonio and Teatro 281
19. 12 Mahasweta Devi’s Short Stories: Tribal and Peasant Peoples in Environmental Struggles in Bihar and Bengal 305
20. 13 Contested Seeds and Imaginary Maps 329
21. Epilogue: The Pedagogical Implications of Studying Environmental Justice Literary and Cultural Poetics 353
22. Afterword: Environmental Justice Cultural Poetics, a Blueprint for Climate Justice 369
23. Works Cited and Selected Bibliography 377
24. Index 387