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Rustbelt Theater: Children's Environmental Justice Narratives From South Elyria, Oh, Lissette Lorenz
Rustbelt Theater: Children's Environmental Justice Narratives From South Elyria, Oh, Lissette Lorenz
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Children's knowledge of their eco-social environment is rarely privileged in environmental literature. Their voices help to broaden conceptions of environmental justice, to the benefit of both the environmental justice movement and the emerging discipline of environmental studies. In this community-based research project conducted in partnership with Save Our Children, an afterschool/summer enrichment center, in South Elyria, Ohio, third and fourth grade children utilized Theater of the Oppressed techniques to create an environmental justice narrative in the form of an original play. The goal of Theater of the Oppressed is for participants to dramatically analyze real-life oppressions/obstacles/challenges they face and act …