The Devil's Fruit: Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice (Medical Anthropology)

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Synopsis
The Devil's Fruit describes the facets of the strawberry industry as a harm industry, and explores author Dvera Saxton’s activist ethnographic work with farmworkers in response to health and environmental injustices. She argues that dealing with devilish—as in deadly, depressing, disabling, and toxic—problems requires intersecting ecosocial, emotional, ethnographic, and activist labors. Through her work as an activist medical anthropologist, she found the caring labors of engaged ethnography take on many forms that go in many different directions. Through chapters that examine farmworkers’ embodiment of toxic pesticides and social and workplace relationships, Saxton critically and reflexively describes and analyzes the ways that engaged and activist ethnographic methods, frameworks, and ethics aligned and conflicted, and in various ways helped support still ongoing struggles for farmworker health and environmental justice in California. These are problems shared by other agricultural communities in the U.S. and throughout the world.
Copyright:
2021

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
252 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780813598635
Related ISBNs:
9780813598611, 9780813598628
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Dvera I. Saxton
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Technology, Social Studies, Medicine, Politics and Government, Sociology
Grade Levels:
College Freshman
Reading Age:
18 and up
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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