The article focuses on toxic tours in Lousiana's "cancer alley", focusing on "how toxic tours may function rhetorically as cultural performances to help build communities of resistance through acts of politicizing memory."
Source
Phaedra C. Pezzullo(2003)Touring “Cancer Alley,” Louisiana: Performances of Community and Memory for Environmental Justice,Text and Performance Quarterly,23:3,226-252,DOI: 10.1080/10462930310001635295
Cite as
Phaedra C. Pezzullo, "Touring “Cancer Alley,” Louisiana: Performances of Community and Memory for Environmental Justice", contributed by Tim Schütz, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 2 February 2020, accessed 25 April 2024. http://www.centerforethnography.org/content/touring-“cancer-alley”-louisiana-performances-community-and-memory-environmental-justice-0
Critical Commentary
The article focuses on toxic tours in Lousiana's "cancer alley", focusing on "how toxic tours may function rhetorically as cultural performances to help build communities of resistance through acts of politicizing memory."