The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture

by Sarah Jaquette Ray

Book Overview

With roots in eugenics and other social-control programs, modern American environmentalism is not always as progressive as we would like to think. In The Ecological Other , Sarah Jaquette Ray examines the ways in which environmentalism can create social injustice through discourses of the body. Ray investigates three categories of ecological otherness: people with disabilities, immigrants, and Native Americans. Extending recent work in environmental...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816511888
• ISBN13: 9780816511884
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"