Matthew S. Henry prater om sin bok 'Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition
Matthew Henry, assistant instructional professor at University of Wyoming (USA), will be launching his book Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) with the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk on Monday, 16 January 2023, at 16:00 in Norway, which is 10:00 US Eastern / 8:00 US Mountain.
Zoom link: https://stavanger.zoom.us/j/66765401420?pwd=ditRN0ZoSllUWER1RnRlNHZvSnNhUT09
The story of water in the United States is one of ecosystemic disruption and social injustice. From the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and Flint, Michigan, to the Appalachian coal and gas fields and the Gulf Coast, low-income communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color face the disproportionate effects of floods, droughts, sea level rise, and water contamination.
In Hydronarratives Matthew S. Henry examines cultural representations that imagine a just transition, a concept rooted in the U.S. labor and environmental justice movements to describe an alternative economic paradigm predicated on sustainability, economic and social equity, and climate resilience. Focused on regions of water insecurity, from central Arizona to central Appalachia, Henry explores how writers, artists, and activists have creatively responded to intensifying water crises in the United States and argues that narrative and storytelling are critical to environmental and social justice advocacy. By drawing on a wide and comprehensive range of narrative texts, historical documentation, policy papers, and literary and cultural scholarship, Henry presents a timely project that examines the social movement, just transition, and the logic of the Green New Deal, in addition to contemporary visions of environmental justice.