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Cultivating Environmental Justice
Robert S. Emmett
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Description for Cultivating Environmental Justice
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; RNU; WMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
While Michael Pollan and others have popularized ideas about how growing one’s own food can help lead to environmental sustainability, environmental justice activists have pushed for more access to gardens and fresh food in impoverished communities. Now, Robert S. Emmett argues that mid-twentieth-century American garden writing included many ideas that became formative for these contemporary environmental writers and activists.
Drawing on ecocriticism, environmental history, landscape architecture, and recent work in environmental justice and food studies, Emmett explores how the language of environmental justice emerged in descriptions of gardening across a variety of literary forms. He reveals early egalitarian associations ... Read more
While Michael Pollan and others have popularized ideas about how growing one’s own food can help lead to environmental sustainability, environmental justice activists have pushed for more access to gardens and fresh food in impoverished communities. Now, Robert S. Emmett argues that mid-twentieth-century American garden writing included many ideas that became formative for these contemporary environmental writers and activists.
Drawing on ecocriticism, environmental history, landscape architecture, and recent work in environmental justice and food studies, Emmett explores how the language of environmental justice emerged in descriptions of gardening across a variety of literary forms. He reveals early egalitarian associations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625342058
SKU
V9781625342058
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99-15
About Robert S. Emmett
Robert S. Emmett is director of academic programs at the Rachel Carson Center, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
Reviews for Cultivating Environmental Justice
Emmett’s book is a centrally important contribution to ecocriticism, environmental justice discourse, and the burgeoning field of food studies and sustainability, because it is the first attempt to bring together the many historical and political backgrounds of the relatively recent emergence of the urban gardening movement in connection with environmental justice.""—Louise Westling, author of The Logos of the Living World: ... Read more