Elizabeth Hoover

The River Is in Us

Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community

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Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth Hoover is Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University, where she serves as a co-leader in Brown’s Superfund Research Program Community Engagement Core, as well as a member of the executive committee to develop Native American and Indigenous Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781517903039
• ISBN-10: 1517903033
• Artikelnr.: 48065126

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Hoover is Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brown University, where she serves as a co-leader in Brown’s Superfund Research Program Community Engagement Core, as well as a member of the executive committee to develop Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface: Cultural Touchstones
Abbreviations
Introduction: Environmental Justice, Political Ecology, and the Three
Bodies of a Mohawk Community
1. Driving Tour through the Political and Environmental History of
Akwesasne
2. Environmental Contamination, Health Studies, and Mitigation Politics 
3. “We’re Not Going to Be Guinea Pigs”: Lessons from Community-based
Participatory Research 
4. Contamination, Convenience, and a Changing Food Culture
5. PCBs and Thrifty Genes: Broadening the Scope of Illness Explanation 
Conclusion. Highlighting Resilience: Individual, Social, and Political
Resurgence and Survivance
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index