Middlebury

ENVS1031A-W17

Nonfictions of Env. Justice
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Environmental Justice at the Margins: Non/fictions
Does it make sense to talk about environmental justice at the margins of global society, where the political, social, and legal structures that ensure justice tend to fail? With three literary case studies—the toxic slums of a fictionalized Bhopal; the ghost-voices of Chernobyl’s radioactive wasteland; and the land-mined countryside of a post-war Mozambique—we will consider the strategies writers use to fictionalize real contaminated environments. Our three primary texts are Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, 2015 Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl, and Mia Couto’s The Last Flight of the Flamingo, which we will read alongside critical writings and short films. This course counts as an ENVS humanities cognate.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
11408
Subject Code:
ENVS
Course Number:
1031
Section Identifier:
A

Course

ENVS 1031

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Winter 2017

ENVS1031A-W17 Lecture (Mahlstedt)