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The Devil's Fruit : Farmworkers, Health, and Environmental Justice / Dvera I. Saxton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Medical AnthropologyPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (268 p.) : 20 b-w imagesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813598659
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.17/9209794 23
LOC classification:
  • HD1527.C2 S32 2021
  • HD1527.C2 S32 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Becoming an Engaged Activist Ethnographer -- 1. Engaged Anthropology with Farmworkers: Building Rapport, Busting Myths -- 2. Strawberries: An (Un)natural History -- 3. Pesticides and Farmworker Health: Toxic Layers, Invisible Harm -- 4. Accompanying Farmworkers -- 5. Ecosocial Solidarities: Teachers, Students, and Farmworker Families -- Conclusion: Activist Anthropology as Triage -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Becoming an Engaged Activist Ethnographer -- 1. Engaged Anthropology with Farmworkers: Building Rapport, Busting Myths -- 2. Strawberries: An (Un)natural History -- 3. Pesticides and Farmworker Health: Toxic Layers, Invisible Harm -- 4. Accompanying Farmworkers -- 5. Ecosocial Solidarities: Teachers, Students, and Farmworker Families -- Conclusion: Activist Anthropology as Triage -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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