Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition

232 Pages·2022·8.546 MB·English

by  Matthew S. Henry

Hydronarratives
Hydro narratives
Hydro narratives
Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition
Matthew S. henry
University of Nebraska Press / Lincoln
© 2022 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
A version of chapter 3 originally appeared as “Extractive
Fictions and Post- Extractive Futurisms: Energy and
Environmental Injustice in Appalachia,” Environmental
Humanities 11, no. 2 (2019): 402– 26. The poems “A Mother
Near the West Virginia Line Considers Public Health” and
“F Word” by Julie Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin are
from Shale Play: Poetry and Photographs from the Fracking
Fields (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018), 90– 91;
permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center,
Inc., and republished with permission of Pennsylvania
State University Press: A division of the Pennsylvania State
University Libraries and Scholarly Communications. A
short section of chapter 4 was originally published as
“Imagining a Green New Deal through Climate Fiction”
in Edge Effects: A Digital Magazine, February 21, 2019.
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and Arapaho Peoples, as well as those of the relocated
Ho- Chunk, Sac and Fox, and Iowa Peoples.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022947338
Set in Lyon Text
For Jessica

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Storying
Water and Justice 1
1/ Decolonizing Drought:
Indigenous Collective
Continuance in the Lower
Colorado River Basin 25
2/ Freedom Dreams for Flint:
Imagining a Just Transition
beyond Racial Capitalism 57
3/ Extractive Fictions and
Post- Extraction Futurisms:
Energy, Water, and
Environmental Justice
in Appalachia 85
4/ On the Wrong Side of the
Levee: Sea Level Rise
Narratives in the Decade
of the Green New Deal 113
Conclusion: Imagining
a Community- Driven Just
Transition in Wyoming 147
Notes 159
Bibliography 191
Index 211

Illustrations
1/ Hohokam Garden reproduction 49
2/ Municipal water piping near
Hohokam Garden reproduction 49
3/ Su:dagi Haicu A:ga (Water’s Story)
by Marcus, Butler, and Manuel 51
4/ Model wearing Tracy Reese’s
Flint Fit Collection 80
5/ Greetings from Flint mural
by Emily Ding 82
6/ Sunflower Children mural
by Emily Ding 82
7/ AMD & Art Park blueprint 107
8/ AMD & Art Park holding pond 107
9/ Chroma S4 Chimaera by
John Sabraw 109
10/ Green New Deal poster for
Flushing Meadows Corona Park,
Queens 145
11/ Green New Deal poster for the
Public Garden, Boston 146
12/ Flyer announcing Imagining
Wyoming’s Future contest 155
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