Everyday Exposure

Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley

Sarah Marie Wiebe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2016
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3263-2 (ISBN)

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Everyday Exposure documents the adverse health effects experienced by Aamjiwnaang citizens in the heart of Canada’s Chemical Valley and argues for a transformative and experiential “sensing policy” approach that takes the voices and experiences of Indigenous citizens seriously.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	3 photo essays, 1 map, 3 tables
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7748-3263-0 / 0774832630
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-3263-2 / 9780774832632
Zustand	Neuware