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Sarah Marie Wiebe - Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley - 9780774832632 - V9780774832632
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Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley

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Description for Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 560 pages, 3 photo essays, 1 map, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL9; LNKJ; MBNH2; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774832632
SKU
V9780774832632
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Sarah Marie Wiebe
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
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 ... Read more

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