Title: American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship
Abstract: Foreword, Philip J. Deloria Introduction, Joni Adamson and Kimberly N. Ruffin Section 1. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging 1. Zora Neale Hurston and the Environmental Ethic of Risk, Susan Scott Parrish 2. Haitian Soil for the Citizen's Soul, Karen Salt 3. Intimate Cartographies: Defining Navajo Ecological Citizenship through U.S. Mapping, Soil Conservation and Livestock Reduction Programs, Traci Bynne Voyles 4. Getting Back to an Imagined Nature: The Mannahatta Project and Environmental Justice, Jeffrey Myers 5. The Oil Desert, Michael Ziser 6. Japanese Roots in American Soil: National Belonging in David Mas Masumoto's Harvest Son and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's The Legend of Fire Horse Woman, Sarah D. Wald Section II. Border Ecologies 7. Our Nations and All Our Relations: Environmental Ethics in William S. Yellow Robe Jr.'s The Council, John Gamber 8. Preserving the Great White North: Migratory Birds, Italian Immigrants, and the Making of Ecological Citizenship Across the U.S.-Canada Border, 1900-1924, Ivan Grabovac 9. Boundaries of Violence: Water, Gender and Development in Context, Julie Sze 10. U.S. Border Ecologies, Environmental Criticism, and Transnational American Studies, Claudia Sadowski-Smith 11. Justice and Trans-Pacific Indigenous Feminisms, Hsinya Huang Section III. Ecological Citizenship in Action 12. Roots of Nativist Environmentalism in America's Eden, Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Naguib Pellow 13. Wielding Common Wealth in Washington, D.C. and Eastern Kentucky: Creative Social Practice in Two Marginalized Communities, Kirsten Crase 14. Climate Justice Now! Imagining Grassroots Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Giovanna Di Chiro 15. The Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Trailblazing the Commons, Stephanie LeMenager
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-04
Language: en
Type: book
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