The Environmental Justice Reader : Politics, Poetics, & Pedagogy

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Environmental Justice Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy 3(12) Joni Adamson Mei Mei Evans Rachel Stein Environmental Justice: A Roundtable Discussion with Simon Ortiz, Teresa Leal, Devon Pena, and Terrell Dixon 15(14) Joni Adamson Rachel Stein POLITICS Testimonies 29(15) Mei Mei Evans Statement from Doris Bradshaw 32(2) Statement from Sterling Gologergen 34(1) Statement from Edgar Mouton 35(2) Statement from Alberto Saldamando 37(4) Statement from Paul Smith 41(3) Throwing Rocks at the Sun: An Interview with Teresa Leal 44(14) Joni Adamson Endangered Landscapes and Disappearing Peoples? Identity, Place, and Community in Ecological Politics 58(24) Devon G. Pena Who Hears Their Cry? African American Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Memphis, Tennessee 82(23) Andrea Simpson Radiation, Tobacco, and Illness in Point Hope, Alaska: Approaches to the ``Facts'' in Contaminated Communities 105(20) Nelta Edwards The Movement for Environmental Justice in the Pacific Islands 125(20) Valerie Kuletz POETICS Toward an Environmental Justice Ecocriticism 145(18) T. V. Reed From Environmental Justice Literature to the Literature of Environmental Justice 163(18) Julie Sze ``Nature'' and Environmental Justice 181(13) Mei Mei Evans Activism as Affirmation: Gender and Environmental Justice in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms and Barbara Neely's Blanche Cleans Up 194(19) Rachel Stein Some Live More Downstream than Others: Cancer, Gender, and Environmental Justice 213(16) Jim Tarter Struggle in Ogoniland: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Cultural Politics of Environmental Justice 229(18) Susan Comfort Toward a Symbiosis of Ecology and Justice: Water and Land Conflicts in Frank Waters, John Nichols, and Jimmy Santiago Baca 247(18) Tom Lynch Saving the Salmon, Saving the People: Environmental Justice and Columbia River Tribal Literatures 265(19) Janis Johnson Sustaining the ``Urban Forest'' and Creating Landscapes of Hope: An Interview with Cinder Hypki and Bryant ``Spoon'' Smith 284(27) Giovanna Di Chiro PEDAGOGY Teaching for Transformation: Lessons from Environmental Justice 311(20) Robert Figueroa Notes on Cross-Border Environmental Justice Education 331(19) Soenke Zehle Changing the Nature of Environmental Studies: Teaching Environmental Justice to ``Mainstream'' Students 350(18) Steve Chase Teaching Literature of Environmental Justice in an Advanced Gender Studies Course 368(13) Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine Source Acknowledgments 381(2) Contributors 383(6) Index 389