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Chapter 21 - Coda: Virus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2021

Jeffrey Cohen
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Stephanie Foote
Affiliation:
West Virginia University
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Summary

Risk in the global economy is often borne by those with the least political agency or monetary resources, who also bear the brunt of the environmental damage inflicted by a system of unstoppered industrial development. Environmental humanities seeks greater justice and equality within human societies and in all ecological relationships; it can therefore model how risk is absorbed by those without access to economic and political advantage. We have to imagine a more equitable society before we can build it. The environmental humanities can create opportunities for creative and scholarly work to rethink its organizational and logical structure, to risk upending received rhetorical models in creative and scholarly work. Environmental humanities has a chance to reconceive how the “human” relates to the world around it, questioning the human as primary subject and imagining a way of seeing and describing the world as a horizontal shared space rather than a vertical, teleological hierarchy. It’s risky to practice new modes of expression. It’s even riskier to subordinate the human in a field where the word “human” is predominant. Environmental humanities is the place to take that risk.

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Bullard, Robert D. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Westview Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Bullard, Robert D.Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Race Still Matters.” Phylon 49 no. 3/4 (Autumn–Winter 2001): 151171Google Scholar
Bullard, Robert D. Mohai, Paul, Saha, Robin, and Wright., BeverlyToxic Waste and Race at Twenty: Why Race Still Matters After All These Years.” Environmental Law 38 no. 2 (Spring 2008): 371411.Google Scholar
Cole, Luke W. and Foster, Sheila R.. From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement. NYU Press, 2001.Google Scholar
Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.Google Scholar
Hsu, Hsuan L.Fatal Contiguities: Metonymy and Environmental Justice.” New Literary History 42 no. 1 (2011): 147168.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hsu, Hsuan L. The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics. New York University Press, 2020.Google Scholar
Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Pellow, David N.Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Studies: Black Lives Matter as an Environmental Justice Challenge.” DuBois Review 13 no. 2 (2016): 221236.Google Scholar

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  • Coda: Virus
  • Edited by Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University, Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
  • Online publication: 12 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039369.022
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  • Coda: Virus
  • Edited by Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University, Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
  • Online publication: 12 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039369.022
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  • Coda: Virus
  • Edited by Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State University, Stephanie Foote, West Virginia University
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities
  • Online publication: 12 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039369.022
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