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Ouch! Eew! Blech! A Trialogue on Porous Technologies, Places and Embodiments

In: Contours of Feminist Political Ecology

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  • Ilenia Iengo

    (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB))

  • Panagiota Kotsila

    (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB))

  • Ingrid L. Nelson

    (University of Vermont)

Abstract

In this chapter, we bring political ecologies of health and the body into conversation with environmental justice and crip theory, science, technology and society studies (STS) and biopolitics. We present a trialogue that highlights three cases of health and embodiment examining the crosscutting themes of porosity and technologies as they offer us ways to insist on the right to be and signal a politics of health in FPE: (a) the lived experience of chronic pain as a catalyst for learning about environmental injustice in Naples, southern Italy, and the epistemic activism of crip communities producing counter-knowledge and mutual aid; (b) the spread of malaria among immigrant farmworkers in southern Greece as invisibilised intersectional and embodied injustice; and (c) embracing pharmaceuticals and vlogs with ambivalence while living with the temporary condition, hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) in the northeastern United States. We bring to the fore questions around bodies, harm, care and power, as those were brought about by our own situatedness in, and response-ability towards, embodied experiences of chronic pain, infection and nausea.

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  • Ilenia Iengo & Panagiota Kotsila & Ingrid L. Nelson, 2023. "Ouch! Eew! Blech! A Trialogue on Porous Technologies, Places and Embodiments," Gender, Development and Social Change, in: Wendy Harcourt & Ana Agostino & Rebecca Elmhirst & Marlene Gómez & Panagiota Kotsila (ed.), Contours of Feminist Political Ecology, chapter 0, pages 75-103, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gdechp:978-3-031-20928-4_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20928-4_4
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