Refusing Death - by Nadia Y Kim (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book focuses on how Asian and Latin@ immigrant activists for environmental justice in Los Angeles navigate sickness and premature death and, most importantly, their political push-back against it.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book focuses on how Asian and Latin@ immigrant activists for environmental justice in Los Angeles navigate sickness and premature death and, most importantly, their political push-back against it.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An innovative and close-up look at the ways in which Latin@ and Filipin@ activists mobilize bodies, emotions, and gendered caregiving in their struggle for environmental justice.--Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo "University of Southern California"<br><br>An urgent, much-needed account of the activism of Filipin@ and Latin@ immigrant activists in Los Angeles. Spotlighting gendered resistance and community citizenmaking, Kim effectively recasts environmental justice to mean commitment to care for both physical and emotional lives.--Yen Lê Espiritu "University of California, San Diego"<br><br>Immigrant environmental justice movements are at the leading edge of social change in global cities, and yet they are frequently overlooked. Nadia Kim delivers a major intervention for reassessing the impacts of these movements, extending our vision with a keen ethnographic eye, a compelling narrative, and robust theoretical analyses.--David Naguib Pello "author of <i>What is Critical Environmental Justice?</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Nadia Y. Kim</b> is Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of the award-winning book <i>Imperial Citizens</i> (Stanford, 2008).
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