Journal article
Race, Coloniality, and Geo-Body Politics: The Garden as Latin@ Vernacular Discourse
Environmental communication, Vol.5(3), pp.363-371
09/01/2011
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2011.593535
Abstract
This essay focuses critical attention on one way that The Garden (2008) functions as a Latin@ vernacular discourse that serves to articulate the South Central Farmers to a decolonial politics operating through a kind of "border thinking." Delinking themselves from the modern-colonial imaginary, I argue, the South Central Farmers enact a geo-body politics of knowledge that is consistently subverted, even by supporters, vis-à-vis modern-colonial rationality. Despite their apparent instrumental failure, the South Central Farmers succeeded in enacting a decolonial challenge, which compels us as scholars to rethink our approach to the Farmers' specific activism and Latin@ vernacular discourse generally.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Race, Coloniality, and Geo-Body Politics: The Garden as Latin@ Vernacular Discourse
- Creators
- Darrel Enck-Wanzer
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Environmental communication, Vol.5(3), pp.363-371
- DOI
- 10.1080/17524032.2011.593535
- ISSN
- 1752-4032
- eISSN
- 1752-4040
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 09/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Communication Studies; Interdisciplinary Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984083819002771
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