Research Catalog

Title

The environmental justice reader : politics, poetics, & pedagogy / edited by Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, & Rachel Stein.

Publication

Tucson, Arz. : University of Arizona Press, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Adamson, Joni, 1958-
• Evans, Mei Mei.
• Stein, Rachel, 1954-

Description

x, 395 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Environmental justice

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Testimonies / Mei Mei Evans -- Throwing rocks at the sun : an interview with Teresa Leal / Joni Adamson -- Endangered landscapes and disappearing peoples? Identity, place, and community in ecological politics / Devon G. Peña -- Who hears their cry? African American women and the fight for environmental justice in Memphis, Tennessee / Andrea Simpson -- Radiation, tobacco, and illness in Point Hope, Alaska : approaches to the "facts" in contaminated communities / Nelta Edwards -- The movement for environmental justice in the Pacific Islands / Valeri Kuletz.
• Toward an environmental justice ecocriticism / T.V. Reed -- Form environmental justice literature to the literature of environmental justice / Julie Sze -- "Nature" and environmental justice / Mei Mei Evans -- Activism as affirmation : gender and environmental justice in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms and Barbara Neely's Blanche Cleans Up / Rachel Stein -- Some live more downstream than others : cancer, gender, and environmental justice / Jim Tarter -- Struggle in Ogoniland : Ken Saro-Wiwa and the cultural politics of environmental justice / Susan Comfort.
• Toward a symbiosis of ecology and justice : water and land conflicts in Frank Waters, John Nichols, and Jimmy Santiago Baca / Tom Lynch -- Saving the salmon, saving the people : environmental justice and Columbia River tribal literatures / Janis Johnson -- Sustaining the "urban forest" and creating landscapes of hope : an interview with Cinder Hypki and Bryant "Spoon" Smith / Giovanna Di Chiro -- Teaching for transformation : lessons from environmental justice / Robert Figueroa -- Notes on cross-border environmental justice education / Soenke Zehle.
• Changing the nature of environmental studies : teaching environmental justice to "mainstream" students / Steve Chase -- Teaching literature of environmental justice in an advanced gender studies course / Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine.

Call Number

JBE 03-64

ISBN

• 0816522065 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0816522073 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2002003308

OCLC

49277391

Title

The environmental justice reader : politics, poetics, & pedagogy / edited by Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, & Rachel Stein.

Imprint

Tucson, Arz. : University of Arizona Press, c2002.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Adamson, Joni, 1958-

Evans, Mei Mei.

Stein, Rachel, 1954-

Sudoc No.

UA 5.2:E 58/2 azdocs

Research Call Number

JBE 03-64