Decolonial Environmentalisms

David J. VAzquez is an associate professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University.

Introduction. Mapping Decolonial Environmental Imaginaries in Latinx Culture 1. Ecocosmopolitanism, Toxicity, and Solidarity: How Latinx Farmworker Texts Imagine Race, Space, and Authority 2. Memory, Space, and Denizenship: Commemorating 1960s Activism, Nostalgia, and Urban Environmental Preservation 3. Echoes of Manifest Destiny: Race, Space, and Violence in the Latinx Anti-Western 4. 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 Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

"Decolonial Environmentalisms is an extraordinary contribution to Latinx studies, a field in which there is immense concern about environmental injustice but few scholarly resources to address it. This is important and necessary work that will change the way scholars in both the environmental humanities and Latinx studies approach their work. The book makes clear its grounding-and its intervention-in both interdisciplinary Latinx studies and ecocriticism. The coda, with its meditation on hope, offers both an exciting personal voice and a fragile and speculative, but nonetheless powerful, vision of where the environmental imaginaries elucidated in the previous chapters might take us." - Julie Avril Minich, University of Texas at Austin, author of Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico "I cannot sing the praises of Decolonial Environmentalisms as loudly and forcefully as I would like to on the page. This book is truly exceptional and will in no time take its rightful place as a necessary text in Latinx literary and cultural studies. With its simultaneously rigorous and accessible style and its unflinching aim to initiate deep thinking and action pertaining to environmental justice, VAzquez's vibrant book is activist scholarship at its best." - Richard T. Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside, author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics