Main entry:

Vázquez, David J., author.

Title & Author:

Decolonial environmentalisms : climate justice and speculative futures in Latinx cultural production / David J. Vázquez.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.

Description:

196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-183) and index.
Introduction : Mapping decolonial environmental imaginaries in Latinx culture -- Ecocosmopolitanism, toxicity, and solidarity : how Latinx farmworker texts imagine race, space, and authority -- Memory, space, and denizenship : commemorating 1960s activism, nostalgia, and urban environmental preservation -- Echoes of manifest destiny : race, space, and violence in the Latinx anti-Western -- The ironies of dystopian environmental futures : science fiction, hope, and decolonial optimism in Sabrina Vourvoulias's Ink and Alex Rivera's Sleep dealer -- Coda. A concluding meditation on decolonial hope.

Summary:

"In Decolonial Environmentalisms, David Vázquez provides material strategies for understanding how Latinx environmental thinking over the past three decades interrogates environmental harm and the ways racial capitalism (the idea that racism is a structuring logic of capitalism) and colonialism are embedded in some forms of mainstream environmentalism. Vázquez critiques the ways that dialogues on environmental degradation have frequently ignored or minimally engaged with Latinx thought and cultural works on these issues. As he points out, and we frequently see now with climate change, environmental damage does not affect everyone equally. He argues that most ecocriticism, when it does engage with Latinx work, tends to draw from the same few sources again and again, and often misreads their intentions. Decolonial Environmentalisms considers multiple genres and forms (novels, films, visual art, and short stories) created by authors from multiple ethnic communities (Chicanx, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban American, Peruvian and Central American) into this conversation. This approach makes it possible to shape a more nuanced account of how Latinxs from multiple racial, class, gender, sexual and other identity positions think about and represent environmental ideas. By doing so he asks: what do Latinx environmental representations do? How do they convey their imaginaries? And especially, how do Latinx authors and artists imagine a more just and equitable material outcome for the characters and situations they depict?"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781477331477 (hardcover)
1477331476
9781477331903 (paperback)
1477331905
(pdf)
9781477331910
(epub)
9781477331927

Subject:

Environmentalism in art.
Hispanic American arts Themes, motives.
Arts, Latin American Themes, motives.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Environmentalism Social aspects.
Art criticism Social aspects.
Environnementalisme dans l'art.
Arts latino-américains (États-Unis) Thèmes, motifs.
Arts latino-américains Thèmes, motifs.
Postcolonialisme et arts.
Critique d'art Aspect social.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322369
Call No.: 322369
Copy: 1
Status: Available