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Everyday Exposure
Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada's Chemical Valley
Wiebe, Sarah Marie Publisher: UBC Press, Canada
Year Published: 2016
Pages: 260pp ISBN: 978-0-7748-3264-9
Library of Congress Number: GE240.C3W53 2016 Dewey: 304.2089'973330711327
Resource Type: Book
Surrounded by Canada's densest concentration of chemical manufacturing plants, members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation have expressed concern about a declining male birth rate and high incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular illness. Everyday Exposure uncovers the systemic injustices they face as they fight for environmental justice.
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Table of Contents
Foreword: A Canadian Tragedy / James Tully
Preface
Photo Essay #1: Atmosphere
1 Skeletons in the Closet: Citizen Wounding and the Biopolitics of Injustice
2 Sensing Policy: An Affective Framework of Analysis
3 State Nerves: The Many Layers of Indigenous Environmental Justice
Photo Essay #2: Life
4 Home Is Where the Heart Is: Lived Experience in Aamjiwnaang
5 Digesting Space: The Geopolitics of Everyday Life
6 Seeking Reproductive Justice: Situated Bodies of Knowledge
7 Shelter-in-Place? Immune No More and Idle No More
Photo Essay #3: Resurgence
Appendices
Notes; References; Index
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