Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal black women, labor, and environmental ethics Sofía Betancourt

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Notes: Elecresource; Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment
Contents: Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal -- Geography, countermemory, and resistance -- The silver sisters : ecocreolization at the Panamá Canal -- Dignity and striving : an ecowomanist moral anthropology
Summary: "In Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal: Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics, Sofía Betancourt constructs environmental ethics at the intersection of the global North and global South. Betancourt explores transnational environmental justice through the lived experience of women from the African Diaspora who migrated to Panamá to work on the Canal"-- Provided by publisher

Physical description: 1 online resource (xii, 149 pages) illustrations (black and white)

Place: Panama; Panama Canal; Panamá; Canal de Panamá; Panama Canal (Panama); Canal de Panamá (Panamá)

Topic: Women foreign workers--History; Foreign workers, West Indian--History; Women, Black--History; Ecofeminism--History; Environmental ethics--History; Obeah (Cult)--History; Travailleuses étrangères--Histoire; Travailleurs étrangers antillais--Histoire; Femmes noires--Histoire; Écoféminisme--Histoire; Éthique de l'environnement--Histoire; Obi (Culte)--Histoire; Ecofeminism; Environmental ethics; Foreign workers, West Indian; Obeah (Cult); Women, Black; Women foreign workers; History; Histoire