Readings

Elizabeth Hoover, “Environmental Justice, Political Ecology, and the Three Bodies of a Mohawk Community” in The River Is in Us, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017). Link to open access book.  

Scott Frickel and Jonathan Tollefson “When Environmental Inequality Racialized: Historical Evidence from Providence, Rhode Island” in Socius, Vol 8: 1- 14, 2022. Link to article. 

Thaïsa Way, “Landscapes of industrial excess: A thick section approach to Gas Works Park” in Journal of Landscape Architecture 8:1, (2013), 28-39. Link to article.

Prompt

For this week, please choose two of the three readings and put them in conversation with each other, incorporating your own personal reflection on the themes discussed.

Alternatively, you may reflect on Silvermoon LaRose’s lecture and discuss it in the context of Hoover’s essay, which centers on Katsi Cook and the Akwesasne Mohawks’ struggle for food sovereignty in Upstate New York. Consider also the New Yorker article that complicates Hoover’s Mi’kmaq/Mohawk identity and positionality.