Sharing the earth : an international environmental justice reader / edited by Elizabeth Ammons and Modhumita Roy.
| Other author/creator | Ammons, Elizabeth editor. |
| Other author/creator | Roy, Modhumita, editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2015] |
| Description | xi, 338 pages ; 23 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction / Elizabeth Ammons and Modhumita Roy -- Iktomi and the Muskrat / Traditional Lakota story -- Dove and Jackal / Traditional Xhosa Story -- Those who would take over the earth / Lao Tzu -- How America was discovered / Handsome Lake -- A declaration from the poor oppressed people of England / Diggers and levellers -- 1840 letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson / George Ripley -- Speech of Lord Ashley to the parliament June 1842 / Lord Ashley -- Slavery days as related by Snovey Jackson / WPA Slave narrative -- from Das capital / Karl Marx -- Huckleberries / Henry David Thoreau --Balai / Rabindranath Tagore -- Song of the blantyre explosion / Scottish workers -- John of God, the water carrier / Maria Cristina Mena -- Po' Shady / Charles W. Chesnutt -- Charity and social justice / Jane Addams -- The smuggling of tie Co / Sui Sin Ear -- From men of maize / Miguel Angel Asturias -- One night with the fugitives / Sol T. Plaatje -- Part two Speaking up-Speaking out -- Graciella ; Love Canal ; shadow in stone ; assaults and invasions / Janice Mirikitani -- The rubbish dump / steve chimombo -- Napalm / Quan Barry -- From untouchable / Mulk Raj Anand -- Froms ways of dying / Zakes Mda -- Left / Nikky Finney -- An eight year old agricultural worker / Rigoberta Menchu -- 1. / Mark nowak -- Iron child / mo Yan -- Multinational companies / Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah -- The linkage between patenting of life forms, genetic engineering and food security / wangari maathai -- Wiwi / witi Ihimaera -- Sort by day, burn by night / rita Wong -- The man with the hole in his face / Namwali Serpell -- Black women and the wilderness/ Evelyn C. white -- for the record / Adrienne Rich -- from the king of trees / Ah Cheng. |
| Contents | [TOC continued] #24 / jayanta Mahapatra -- Deadly radiation blues ; endangered species list blues / Jayne Cortez -- Dying back ; endangered species list blues / Jayne Cortez -- Dying back ; when earth becomes an "it" / Marilou Awiakta -- from a small place / Jamaica kincaid -- Western civilization / Agostinho Neto -- Hanging clothes in the sun / Cheryl Savageau --Bringing forth new life / Sadako Kurihara -- No ordinary sun / Hone Tuwhere -- Stuff: chickens and bombs ; That's the place indians talk about ; to change life in a good way / Simon Ortiz -- Wolf Blue / Alex Smith -- Every traveler has one vermont poem / Audre Lorde -- very few specimens-but a lot of bull / P. Sainath -- Into the suburban wild / Jeffrey Myers-- Thieves of light / Martin Espada -- From late victorian holocausts / Mike Davis -- Boat ceremony / Ishimure Michiko -- El Cementerio, Villa El Salvador, Peru / Julia Lisella -- Letter from Mama dot / Fred D'aguiar -- What holds the water, what holds the light / Linda Hogan -- What I learned in Grenada / Tanya Shirley -- Apple ; Speed / Roger Sedarat -- interstate 93 / EJ class collective, 2013 --Part three A world to win -- The universal declaration of human rights / United Nations -- Principles of environmental justice / People of color environmental leadership summit -- The greater common good / Arundhati Roy -- Bread and roses / Lawrence women workers -- Whose earth is it, anyway? /James H. Cone -- Grandmother Ishtoua teaches ; wisdoms of the corn / Marilou Awiakta -- earth democracy in action / Vandana Shiva -- Ogoni! Ogoni! ; To mandy Garner ; Summing up: defence statement / ken Saro Wiwa -- Nobel peace prize lecture, 2004 / Wangari maathai -- stop whining, start winning ; sustaining radicalism ; what are we waiting for? / Michael Albert. |
| Abstract | "The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary texts--poems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist statements, and group-authored visions--illuminates Environmental Justice as a concept and a movement worldwide in a way that is accessible to students, scholars, and general readers. Also included are historical selections that ground contemporary pieces in a continuum of activist concern for the earth and human justice, a much-needed but seldom available perspective. Arts and humanities are crucial in the ongoing effort to achieve an ecologically sustainable and just world. Works of the human imagination provide analyses, articulations of experience, and positive visions of the future that no amount of statistics, data, charts, or graphs can offer because literature speaks not only to the intellect but also to our emotions. Creative literary work, which records human experience both past and present, has the power to warn, to persuade, and to inspire. Each is critical in the shared struggle for Environmental Justice. Individual contributors to Sharing the Earth: Abdul-Rashid Na;Allah, Adrienne Rich, Agostinho Neto, Ah Cheng, Alex Smith, Arundhati Roy, Audre Lorde, Charles W. Chesnutt, Cheryl Savageau, Evelyn C. White, Fred D'Aguiar, George Ripley, Handsome Lake, Henry David Thoreau, Hone Tuwhare, Ishimure Michiko, Jamaica Kincaid, James H. Cone, Jane Addams, Janice Mirikitani, Jayanta Mahapatra, Jayne Cortez, Jeffrey Myers, Julia Lisella, Karl Marx, Ken Saro Wiwa, Lao Tzu, Linda Hogan, Lord Ashley, Manik Bandyopadhyay, María Cristina Mena, Marilou Awiakta, Marilou Awiakta, Mark Nowak, Martiacuten Espada, Michael Albert, Miguel Angel Asturias, Mike Davis, Mo Yan, Mulk Raj Anand, Namwali Serpell, Nikky Finney, P. Sainath, Quan Barry, Rabindranath Tagore, Rigoberta Menchu;, Rita Wong, Roger Sedarat, Sadako Kurihara, Simon Ortiz, Sol T. Plaatje, Steve Chimombo, Sui Sin Far, Tanya Shirley, Vandana Shiva, Wangari Maathai, Wangari Maathai, Witi Ihimaera, Zakes Mda. Also included are contributions from these organizations, cultures, and groups: Diggers and Levelers, Lowell Women Workers, People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, Scottish Workers, Lakota (indigenous North Americans), Xhosa (indigenous Africans), United Nations, EJ Class Collective-2013"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | "The need for this volume derives from the fact that the humanities are crucial in the ongoing effort to achieve an ecologically sustainable and just world. Works of the human imagination provide types of analyses, articulations of experience, and positive visions of the future that no amount of statistics, data, charts, or graphs can offer because literature speaks not only to the intellect but also to the emotions. Creative work-which records human experience, both past and present-has the power to warn, to persuade, and to inspire, each of which is critical in the shared struggle for environmental justice"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Sources. |
| LCCN | 2014035968 |
| ISBN | 9780820347707 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0820347701 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780820347714 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 082034771X (paperback) |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | GE220 .S44 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |