Table of Contents

• 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 Peña, and Terrell Dixon / Joni Adamson and Rachel Stein
• Politics
• 1. Testimonies from Doris Bradshaw, Sterling Gologergen, Edgar Mouton, Alberto Saldamando, and Paul Smith / Mei Mei Evans
• 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. Peña
• 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
• Poetics
• 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
• Pedagogy
• 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 "Maintstream" Students/ Steve Chase
• 19. Teaching Literature of Environmnetal Justice in an Advanced Gender Studies Course/ Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine

About the Author

Joni Adamson is Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and Director of The Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI) at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. Her books have helped to establish and expand the environmental humanities and environmental studies, including most recently, Humanities for the Environment (Routledge 2017); Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies—Conversations from Earth to Cosmos (Routledge 2016); Keywords for Environmental Studies (New York University Press, 2016), and American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism (University of Arizona Press, 2001). In 2012, she served as President of the Association for the Study Literature and Environment (ASLE).

Reviews

"Brings environmental issues home and expands on ideas about justice with hope and possibilities for change." --Voices from the Earth "This diverse collection of interdisciplinary readings offers a sense of the breadth of the evolving environmental justice movement. . . . The editors weave a disparity of personal voices into a narrative that builds on previous works on environmental inequity and speaks of the realities of the political aspects of environmental versus corporate issues, analyzes literature for environmental justice concerns, and shares stories of the difficulties involved in teaching, informing, and advocating for this multidimensional cause. Recommended for all levels." --Choice "Offers a realistic and fresh look at the interlocked problems and problem-solving approaches to exploitation of land and of disenfranchised people. Although introducing the global scope of the problem, it also shows that communities working to solve environmental problems develop new skills, creativity, and powerful voices." --Bulletin of Science, Technology Society" A valuable contribution . . . The closing chapters . . . will also be helpful for the next generation of environmental justice humanities scholars as they look to achieve the delicate balance of authenticity of voice and the artistic expression of that voice." --Environment "This reader is, more than anything else, an effort to counter fear and uncertainty. It portrays activists winning battles, artists inspiring children, teachers begetting new activists. In the process, it takes the edges of the issue of environmental racism and stretches them. . . . This reader's nineteen essays are not restricted to any one group or to the United States only, and include many fresh and diverse voices. That is its strength." --Electronic Green Journal