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Territoriality, Narratives And Violence: Stories Of Eight Women Living In The Presence Of A Large-Scale Mine In Ecuador, Chelsea N. Viteri 7742622017
Territoriality, Narratives And Violence: Stories Of Eight Women Living In The Presence Of A Large-Scale Mine In Ecuador, Chelsea N. Viteri 7742622017
International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE)
Women play a substantial role in communities that are affected by mining nevertheless, their role has not been well documented and their voices and experiences have not been centered in the debates around extraction. In Ecuador, local rural, campesina, and indigenous women bear much the cost of large scale development projects, as their bodies, families, homes, environments and economies are impacted. This paper emerges from eight semi-structured interviews with indigenous and campesina women from Tundayme, a small rural town which is in the middle of the first large scale mine in Ecuador. Using a feminist political ecology framework and storytelling, …
Interrogating The "And": A Study Of Environmentalism And Disability, Melissa Cabat
Interrogating The "And": A Study Of Environmentalism And Disability, Melissa Cabat
Honors Papers
Mainstream environmental activists often draw the correlation between environment and disability as being a matter of public health inequities, including air quality, pollution, and now the aftereffects of fracking. These are important, but they only scratch the surface of the link between these movements. I will discuss the movement of ecodisablism and how climate justice activists with disabilities, including the Crips for Climate Justice movement, have been influenced by climate and disability activism. This research is relevant as the massive baby boomer population ages and risks losing their connection to nature due to inaccessible green spaces. Moreover, discussing disability rights …