Janet Fiskio

Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an exploration of speculative pasts and futures, practices of dissent and mourning, and everyday inhabitation and social care, Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice illuminates the ways that expressive cultures of frontline communities resist environmental racism while protecting and repairing the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781108840675
• ISBN-10: 1108840671
• Artikelnr.: 60068875

Autorenporträt

Janet Fiskio is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College, where she teaches environmental humanities and community engagement. She coordinates a digital archive in collaboration with the community of Africatown, Alabama. Her publications focus on food justice, climate change, social movements, and environmental justice.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. 'Fear of a Black Planet': Ecotopia and Eugenics in Climate Narratives
3. Ghosts and Reparations
4. Mapping and Memory
5. 'Bodies Tell Stories': Mourning and Hospitality after Katrina
6. Round Dance and Resistance
7. 'Slow Insurrection': Dissent, Collective Voice, and Social Care
8. Cannibal Spirits and Sacred Seeds
9. Epilogue: 'Everyday Micro-Utopias'.