Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India

Kamala Joyce Platt

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Environmental Justice Poetics

Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India

Kamala Joyce Platt

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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 Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	1
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
2 Environmental Justice: Coining a New Social Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
3 Narratives of Social Environmentalism: Environmental Justice, Transformative Culture, Narmada Bachao Andolan and People Organized in Defense of the Earth and her Resources (PODER) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
4 Mothers in the Hood: Latinas Serve and Protect East L.A. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
5 Chipko: Human(e) Arms to Defend Lifestyle and Environment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
6 Bhopal: Writing Tragedy as Ultimatum for Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
7 Representing Bhopal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
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” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
9 India’s Forests and the Interconnected Legacies of Environmental Degradation and Colonialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
10 Chicana/o Poetics: Farm Workers United Against Pesticides and City Dwellers Organized Against Toxins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
11 A Farm Worker’s Blue Cape: Testimonio and Teatro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
12 Mahasweta Devi’s Short Stories: Tribal and Peasant Peoples in Environmental Struggles in Bihar and Bengal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
13 Contested Seeds and Imaginary Maps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
Epilogue: The Pedagogical Implications of Studying Environmental Justice Literary and Cultural Poetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
Afterword: Environmental Justice Cultural Poetics, a Blueprint for Climate Justice Publicly Available Download PDF	369
Works Cited and Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387

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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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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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