Everyday Exposure

Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada's Chemical Valley

AvSarah Marie Wiebe

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada's densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses.As this book reveals, Canada's dark legacy of inflicting harm on Indigenous bodies persists through a system that fails to adequately address health and ecological suffering in First Nations' communities like Aamjiwnaang.Everyday Exposure uncovers the systemic injustices faced on a daily basis in Aamjiwnaang. Exploring the problems that Canada's conflicting levels of jurisdiction pose for the creation of environmental justice policy, analyzing clashes between Indigenous and scientific knowledge, and documenting the experiences of Aamjiwnaang residents as they navigate their toxic environment, this book argues that social and political changes require an experiential and transformative "sensing policy" approach, one that takes the voices of Indigenous citizens seriously.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774832649
Utmärkelser:Winner of Charles Taylor Book Award 2017 (United States)

Utforska kategorier

Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin
Miljörätt inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Sarah Marie Wiebe is an assistant teaching professor at the University of Victoria and holds a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Institute for Studies and Innovation in Community-University Engagement (ISICUE). She has published on the politics of reproductive justice, ecologies of Indigenous citizenship, and community-engaged scholarship. She has also worked with Indigenous communities in Ontario and British Columbia on community filmmaking projects such as Indian Givers and To Fish as Formerly.

Recensioner i media

Everyday Exposure provides a thorough analysis of the lack of health and environmental protections for First Nations peoples at all levels of government and identifies the need for government regulation to redress what have become complex reporting practices, a better understanding of cumulative environmental effects, and improved health services being administered by Health Canada. - Nadine Hoffman, Natural Resources, Bennett Jones Library, University of Calgary (Canadian Law Library Review (volume 43 No. 3)) Based on extensive time spent in the community learning directly from Aamjiwnaang's citizens and experiencing the community's pollution crisis in an embodied and empathetic way, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the legacies of environmental racism in Canada today. - Warren Cariou is an associate professor of English at the University of Manitoba (Canadian Literature Volume 235, Concepts of Vancouver Special Issue)

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword: A Canadian Tragedy / James TullyPrefacePhoto Essay #1: Atmosphere 1 Skeletons in the Closet: Citizen Wounding and the Biopolitics of Injustice2 Sensing Policy: An Affective Framework of Analysis3 State Nerves: The Many Layers of Indigenous Environmental JusticePhoto Essay #2: Life 4 Home Is Where the Heart Is: Lived Experience in Aamjiwnaang5 Digesting Space: The Geopolitics of Everyday Life6 Seeking Reproductive Justice: Situated Bodies of Knowledge7 Shelter-in-Place? Immune No More and Idle No MorePhoto Essay #3: Resurgence AppendicesNotes; References; Index