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Performing Embodied Action in Environmental Injustice Zones - PPT Presentation

Dr Lisa L Phillips Texas Tech University lisaphillipsttuedu Youth climate strike today Where Global And here at Pittsburghs city hall 12 minutes away Kairos activism hope ID: 786135

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Performing Embodied Action in Environmental Injustice Zones

Dr. Lisa L. Phillips

Texas Tech University

lisa.phillips@ttu.edu

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Youth climate strike today!Where: Global! – And here at Pittsburgh’s city hall 12 minutes away

Kairos + activism = hope

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SignpostingSensory rhetoricsEffects/Affects of Story and sensation

Embodied sensations at Feminist intersections with environmental hazards

Hope & resilience

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Image Source:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7235/7284290118_471c43fc75_b.jpg

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Daniel Wildcat

(

Yugi

Muscogee)

“Place-Shaped Knowledges” & “

Indigenuity

Multi-generational knowledge transfer about places & spaces

“Respect for the relationships and relatives that constitute the complex web of life”

Indigenuity

: [imaginative] ability to solve. . .issues facing humankind by situating solutions in Earth-based local indigenous. . . knowledges. . .constitutes a practical merger of knowing with doing” (p. 48)

Wildcat, Daniel R.

Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge

. Golden: Fulcrum, 2009.

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Common WESTERN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGEUnwillingness to face problem + INSULATION OF BUILT ENVIRONS

IMPENDING DOOMSAYING = DESPAIR AND IMMOBILIZATION

ENGINEERING/TECH/SCIENCE = CLEAN UP THE MESS

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Storied affects & lingering

King, Thomas.

The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative.

Anansi Press, 2003.

stories can control our lives…

[They are]

wondrous things. . . .

And they are dangerous. . . .

you have to be careful with the stories you tell,

[for they]

cannot be called back

(King p.9)“”

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Image Source:

https://www.democracynow.org/images/story/07/36407/splash/S4_Hog_Farm_Aerial.jpg

Image Source:

https://www.ysi.com/ysi-blog/water-blogged-blog/2017/09/combating-cafos-concentrated-animal-feeding-operations-and-water-quality

Hog smog: toxic odor and volatile organic compounds associated with confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs)

CAFOs responsible for 20% of U.S. air pollution

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Simmons, W. Michele.

Participation and Power: Civic Discourse in Environmental Policy Decisions

. SUNY, 2007.

Four Typical Risk Communication Models

No public involvement;

One-way flow of technical communication to bring public perception of risk into conformity with the [desired] perception;

Superficial participation to placate [the] public; and,

A wished-for negotiation model

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Community-Generated Social Media Campaigns and Information/Action Website

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It is legal to dump dead animals outside—no burial

or cremation required—which

impacts local wildlife and waterways.

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Images Source:

Waterkeepers

Alliance

Hurricane Florence

2018

Post Hurricane Matthew

2016

Post Florence Flooding

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Image Source:

emojiisland.com

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Image Source:

http://wallpoper.com/images/00/33/81/93/abstract-rainbows_00338193.jpg

Thanks for listening

Lisa.Phillips@ttu.edu

@

lisalouphillips

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As we speak the kids are marchingI’m leaving as soon as we’re done here to join them.

Join me?

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Works Cited

King, Thomas.

The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative.

Anansi Press, 2003.

Nixon, Rob.

Slow Violence: Environmentalism of the Poor.

2011.

Simmons, W. Michele.

Participation and Power: Civic Discourse in Environmental Policy Decisions

. SUNY, 2007.

WILDCAT, DANIEL R. RED ALERT! SAVING THE PLANET WITH INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE. GOLDEN FULCRUM, 2009.Young, Iris. M. Justice and the Politics of Difference

. Princeton, 1990.