The environmental justice reader : politics, poetics, & pedagogy

Adamson, Joni, 1958- (Added Author). Evans, Mei Mei. (Added Author). Stein, Rachel. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0816522065 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0816522073 (paper : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
x, 395 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Tucson, Arz. : University of Arizona Press, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Environmental Justice Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy / Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans and Rachel Stein -- Environmental Justice: A Roundtable Discussion with Simon Ortiz, Teresa Leal, Devon Pena, and Terrell Dixon / Joni Adamson and Rachel Stein -- 1. Testimonies / Mei Mei Evans. Statement from Doris Bradshaw. Statement from Sterling Gologergen. Statement from Edgar Mouton. Statement from Alberto Saldamando. Statement from Paul Smith -- 2. Throwing Rocks at the Sun: An Interview with Teresa Leal / Joni Adamson -- 3. Endangered Landscapes and Disappearing Peoples? Identity, Place, and Community in Ecological Politics / Devon G. Pena -- 4. Who Hears Their Cry? African American Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Memphis, Tennessee / Andrea Simpson -- 5. Radiation, Tobacco, and Illness in Point Hope, Alaska: Approaches to the "Facts" in Contaminated Communities / Nelta Edwards -- 6. The Movement for Environmental Justice in the Pacific Islands / Valerie Kuletz -- 7. Toward an Environmental Justice Ecocriticism / T. V. Reed -- 8. From Environmental Justice Literature to the Literature of Environmental Justice / Julie Sze -- 9. "Nature" and Environmental Justice / Mei Mei Evans -- 10. Activism as Affirmation: Gender and Environmental Justice in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms and Barbara Neely's Blanche Cleans Up / Rachel Stein -- 11. Some Live More Downstream than Others: Cancer, Gender, and Environmental Justice / Jim Tarter -- 12. Struggle in Ogoniland: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Cultural Politics of Environmental Justice / Susan Comfort -- 13. Toward a Symbiosis of Ecology and Justice: Water and Land Conflicts in Frank Waters, John Nichols, and Jimmy Santiago Baca / Tom Lynch -- 14. Saving the Salmon, Saving the People: Environmental Justice and Columbia River Tribal Literatures / Janis Johnson -- 15. Sustaining the "Urban Forest" and Creating Landscapes of Hope: An Interview with Cinder Hypki and Bryant "Spoon" Smith / Giovanna Di Chiro -- 16. Teaching for Transformation: Lessons from Environmental Justice / Robert Figueroa -- 17. Notes on Cross-Border Environmental Justice Education / Soenke Zehle -- 18. Changing the Nature of Environmental Studies: Teaching Environmental Justice to "Mainstream" Students / Steve Chase -- 19. Teaching Literature of Environmental Justice in an Advanced Gender Studies Course / Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine.