The Devil's Fruit - Dvera I. Saxton

The Devil's Fruit

Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
252 Seiten
2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9862-8 (ISBN)
175,45 inkl. MwSt
Describes the features and facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton's activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices.
The Devil's Fruit describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton’s activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices. She argues that dealing with devilish—as in deadly, depressing, disabling, and toxic—problems requires intersecting ecosocial, emotional, ethnographic, and activist labors. Through her work as an activist medical anthropologist, she found the caring labors of engaged ethnography take on many forms that go in many different directions. Through chapters that examine farmworkers’ embodiment of toxic pesticides and social and workplace relationships, Saxton critically and reflexively describes and analyzes the ways that engaged and activist ethnographic methods, frameworks, and ethics aligned and conflicted, and in various ways helped support still ongoing struggles for farmworker health and environmental justice in California. These are problems shared by other agricultural communities in the U.S. and throughout the world.

 

DVERA I. SAXTON is an assistant professor of anthropology at California State University, Fresno.

Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson        

Abbreviations                                                                                                                  

Introduction: Becoming an Engaged Activist Ethnographer                                                     

1: Engaged Anthropology with Farmworkers: Building Rapport, Busting Myths       

2: Strawberries: An (Un)natural History                                                        

3: Pesticides and Farmworker Health: Toxic Layers, Invisible Harm                      

4: Accompanying Farmworkers                                        

5: Ecosocial Solidarities: Teachers, Students, and Farmworker Families                        

6: Conclusion: Activist Anthropology as Triage                                                                                                    

Acknowledgments     

Notes                                                                                                                                    

References                                                                                                                       

Index                              

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 20 b-w images
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Personalwesen
ISBN-10 0-8135-9862-1 / 0813598621
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-9862-8 / 9780813598628
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