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Author: Leilani Nishime ,
Kim D. Hester Williams
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9780295743738
ISBN 10: 0295743735
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 02 July 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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This text provides an invaluable contribution to scholarship on race and the environment, featuring a wide-ranging set of essays which variously deal with both the symbolic and material means through which race intersects with the politics of the more-than-human world. . . . this volume is an indispensable contribution to environmental history and allied disciplines, and is positioned to stimulate work which can better understand the roots and effects of contemporary ecological crises, and envision more just futures. * Environment and History *
This text provides an invaluable contribution to scholarship on race and the environment, featuring a wide-ranging set of essays which variously deal with both the symbolic and material means through which race intersects with the politics of the more-than-human world. . . . this volume is an indispensable contribution to environmental history and allied disciplines, and is positioned to stimulate work which can better understand the roots and effects of contemporary ecological crises, and envision more just futures. * Environment and History * Racial Ecologies is a needed intervention into environmental studies. . . . Essays in this volume highlight the legacies of colonialism and everyday consequences of capitalism on racialized bodies. . . . This collection is not just about framings and ontologies; it is also about politics and collective action. Social change comes from critical understandings. Essays incorporate environmental studies, environmental justice scholarship, and ethnic and Indigenous studies to understand the important problems facing us in our multiple experiences with the environment. * Environmental History *
Author Information
LeiLani Nishime is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. She is the author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture. Kim D. Hester Williams is professor of English at Sonoma State University. The contributors are Sunny Chan, Yu-Fang Cho, Zoltán Grossman, Dominique Bourg Hacker, Stephen Nathan Haymes, Tiffany Jeannette King, Dian Million, Curtiz Marez, Catalina Maíre de Onís, Ashley Cheyemi McNeil, Jessi Quizar, Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Min Hyoung Song, Julie Sze, and Erica Tom.
