Ecowomanism At the Panama Canal - Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics

In Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal, Sofia 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.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal
Chapter 2: Geography, Countermemory, and Resistance
Chapter 3: The Silver Sisters: Ecocreolization at the Panamá Canal
Chapter 4: Dignity and Striving: An Ecowomanist Moral Anthropology

About the author

Sofía Betancourt is associate dean for academic affairs at Drew University’s Theological School.

Summary

In Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal, Sofia 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sofia Betancourt, Sofía Betancourt
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781793641403
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-140-3
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Ethics, Social issues & processes, Religious ethics, Gender studies: women, Social attitudes, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage, Panama Canal