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Environmental Justice Poetics

Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India
  • Kamala Joyce Platt
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023
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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.

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Kamala Platt, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, USA.

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    Frontmatter

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    Acknowledgements

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    Table of Contents

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    Preface

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    Introduction

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  • Part I: Cultural Poetics in Environmental Justice Movements: Organization, Theories, and Resistance in India and Greater Mexico
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    1 Building Movements, Building Theory: Organizing, Resistance and Social Environmentalism

    21
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    2 Environmental Justice: Coining a New Social Movement

    33
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    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
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    4 Mothers in the Hood: Latinas Serve and Protect East L.A.

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    5 Chipko: Human(e) Arms to Defend Lifestyle and Environment

    105
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    6 Bhopal: Writing Tragedy as Ultimatum for Change

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    7 Representing Bhopal

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  • Part II: Women Write Environmental Justice: The Literary Tradition in India and Greater Mexico
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    8 So Close to the United States: Environmental Injustice and the Death of Fe in the “Land of Enchantment”

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    9 India’s Forests and the Interconnected Legacies of Environmental Degradation and Colonialism

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    10 Chicana/o Poetics: Farm Workers United Against Pesticides and City Dwellers Organized Against Toxins

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    11 A Farm Worker’s Blue Cape: Testimonio and Teatro

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    12 Mahasweta Devi’s Short Stories: Tribal and Peasant Peoples in Environmental Struggles in Bihar and Bengal

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    13 Contested Seeds and Imaginary Maps

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    Epilogue: The Pedagogical Implications of Studying Environmental Justice Literary and Cultural Poetics

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    Afterword: Environmental Justice Cultural Poetics, a Blueprint for Climate Justice

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    Works Cited and Selected Bibliography

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    Index

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eBook published on:
October 24, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9783111041575
Hardcover published on:
October 24, 2023
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111041100
Paperback published on:
June 30, 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9783112214961
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Front matter:
18
Main content:
391
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111041575
eBook ISBN: 9783111041575
Hardcover ISBN: 9783111041100
Paperback ISBN: 9783112214961
Keywords for this book
environmental racism; environmental justice; cultural poetics; intersectional feminism
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Academics (cultural studies, environmental studies, women studies), artists, activists
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