The devil's fruit : farmworkers, health and environmental justice /

The devil's fruit : farmworkers, health and environmental justice /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Saxton, Dvera I., author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:	English
Series:	Medical anthropology Medical anthropology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
Subject:	Migrant agricultural laborers -- Health and hygiene -- California. Pesticides -- Health aspects -- California. Pesticides -- Environmental aspects -- California. Migrant agricultural laborers -- Health and hygiene. Pesticides -- Environmental aspects. Pesticides -- Health aspects. California.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13542825

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ISBN:	9780813598635 081359863X 9780813598611 0813598613 9780813598628 0813598621
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"The Devils' Fruit describes the features and 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"--
Other form:	Print version: 9780813598611 0813598613 Print version: Saxton, Dvera I. Devil's fruit. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021] 9780813598611

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Becoming an engaged activist ethnographer
Engaged anthropology with farmworkers : building rapport, busting myths
Strawberries: An (un)natural history
Pesticides and farmworker health : toxic layers, invisible harm
Accompanying farmworkers
Ecosocial solidarities : teachers, students, and farmworker families
Conclusion: Activist anthropology as triage.