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Endometriosis and Environmental ViolenceAn Embodied, Situated Ecopolitics from the Land of Fires in Campania, Italy

Endometriosis and Environmental ViolenceAn Embodied, Situated Ecopolitics from the Land of Fires... This toxic autobiography seeks to open the conversation around the intersecting injustices marking the epistemological, material, political, and porous entanglements between endometriosis, the bodily inflammatory chronic condition the author is affected by, and the toxic waste fires raging in the territory known as the Land of Fires, between the provinces of Naples and Caserta, in southern Italy. Thinking with the sprouting intersection of environmental humanities and disability justice, while rooted in a critical environmental justice and transfeminist standpoint, the article uncovers the toxic embodiment where bodies and places are enmeshed. Although a growing body of literature acknowledges the role of chemical buildup and endocrine-disrupting toxins in the occurrence of endometriosis, the author delineates the epistemic injustices that keep this relationship silent in mainstream medical discourses. Through the blend of environmental memoir, embodied knowledge, activist campaigns, and medical literature, the article exposes the accumulation of environmental, medical, ableist, misogynist, and capitalist slow violence that living with endometriosis brings about. While emerging from the materiality of experiencing trauma and pain, the article reclaims the emancipatory possibilities that can be articulated. From the politicization of an “invisible” illness standpoint, the article proposes a toxic autobiography in which transfeminist, environmental, and disability justice politics are collectively affirmed through situated ecopolitics of response-ability that accounts for interdependence and self-determination of marginal bodies and territories. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environmental Humanities Duke University Press

Endometriosis and Environmental ViolenceAn Embodied, Situated Ecopolitics from the Land of Fires in Campania, Italy

Iengo, Ilenia
Environmental Humanities , Volume 14 (2) – Jul 1, 2022
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Abstract

This toxic autobiography seeks to open the conversation around the intersecting injustices marking the epistemological, material, political, and porous entanglements between endometriosis, the bodily inflammatory chronic condition the author is affected by, and the toxic waste fires raging in the territory known as the Land of Fires, between the provinces of Naples and Caserta, in southern Italy. Thinking with the sprouting intersection of environmental humanities and disability justice, while rooted in a critical environmental justice and transfeminist standpoint, the article uncovers the toxic embodiment where bodies and places are enmeshed. Although a growing body of literature acknowledges the role of chemical buildup and endocrine-disrupting toxins in the occurrence of endometriosis, the author delineates the epistemic injustices that keep this relationship silent in mainstream medical discourses. Through the blend of environmental memoir, embodied knowledge, activist campaigns, and medical literature, the article exposes the accumulation of environmental, medical, ableist, misogynist, and capitalist slow violence that living with endometriosis brings about. While emerging from the materiality of experiencing trauma and pain, the article reclaims the emancipatory possibilities that can be articulated. From the politicization of an “invisible” illness standpoint, the article proposes a toxic autobiography in which transfeminist, environmental, and disability justice politics are collectively affirmed through situated ecopolitics of response-ability that accounts for interdependence and self-determination of marginal bodies and territories.

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Environmental Humanities – Duke University Press

Published: Jul 1, 2022

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    Murphy, Michelle
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    Porpora, Maria Grazia Ingelido, Anna Maria Domenico, Alessandro Di Ferro, Annamaria Crobu, Manuela Pallante, Debora Cardelli, Massimo Cosmi, Ermeraldo V. Felip, Elena De
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    Rier S., D. Martin Bowman, R. Dmowski, P. Becker, J.
  • Rachel Carson Was Right—Then and Now
    Seager, Joni MacGregor, Sherilyn
  • Italian ‘Triangle of Death’ Linked to Waste Crisis
    Senior, Kathryn Mazza, Alfredo
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    Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty Morris, Rosalind
  • SENTIERI. Studio epidemiologico nazionale dei territori e degli insediamenti esposti a rischio da inquinamento: Quinto Rapporto
    Zona, A. et al
  • Creating Solutions in Endometriosis: Global Collaboration through the World Endometriosis Research Foundation
    Adamson, Geoffrey David Kennedy, Stephen Hummelshoj, Lone
  • The Link between Environmental Toxicant Exposure and Endometriosis
    Anger, Dana L. Foster, Warren G.
  • Background Exposure to PCDDs/PCDFs/PCBs and Its Potential Health Effects: A Review of Epidemiologic Studies
    Arisawa, Kokichi Takeda, Hideo Mikasa, Hiroaki
  • Seeing like a Protester: Nature, Power, and Environmental Struggles
    Armiero, Marco
  • Rights of Resistance: The Garbage Struggles for Environmental Justice in Campania, Italy
    Armiero, Marco D’Alisa, Giacomo
  • Political Effluvia: Smells, Revelations, and the Politicization of Daily Experience in Naples, Italy
    Armiero, Marco De Rosa, Salvatore P. Thorpe, Jocelyn Rutherford, Stephanie Sandberg, L. Anders
  • Of Humans, Sheep, and Dioxin: A History of Contamination and Transformation in Acerra, Italy
    Armiero, Marco Fava, Anna
  • Toxic Bios: Toxic Autobiographies. A Public Environmental Humanities Project
    Armiero, Marco et al
  • Lavoro, corpo, ambiente: Laura Conti e le origini dell’ecologia politica in Italia
    Barca, Stefania
  • Telling the Right Story: Environmental Violence and Liberation Narratives
    Barca, Stefania
  • The Potential Role of Environmental Toxins in the Pathophysiology of Endometriosis
    Bruner-Tran, K. L. Rier, S. E. Eisenberg, E. Osteen, K. G.
  • ‘I Feel like I’m Being Stabbed by a Thousand Tiny Men’: The Challenges of Communicating Endometriosis Pain
    Bullo, Stella
  • Reframing Endometriosis: From ‘Career Woman’s Disease’ to Environment/Body Connections
    Capek, Stella Kroll-Smith, Steve Brown, Philip Gunter, Valerie Jan
  • What Kind of Knowledge Is Needed about Toxicant-Related Health Issues? Some Lessons Drawn from the Seveso Dioxin Case
    Centemeri, Laura Boudia, Soraya Jas, Nathalie
  • Introduction: Toxic Embodiment and Feminist Environmental Humanities
    Cielemęcka, Olga Åsberg, Cecilia
  • Razza, colonialità, nazione: Il progetto coloniale italiano tra Mezzogiorno e Africa
    Conelli, Carmine Deplano, Valeria Pes, Alessandro
  • Dioxin-like Compounds and Endometriosis: A Study on Italian and Belgian Women of Reproductive Age
    De Felip Elena, Maria Grazia Porpora Domenico, Alessandro di Ingelido, Anna Maria Cardelli, Massimo Cosmi, Ermelando V. Donnez, Jacques
  • Reclaiming Territory from Below: Grassroots Environmentalism and Waste Conflicts in Campania, Italy
    De Rosa, Salvatore Paolo
  • Living Environmentalisms: Coalition Politics, Social Reproduction, and Environmental Justice
    Di Chiro, Giovanna
  • Local Actions, Global Visions: Remaking Environmental Expertise
    Di Chiro, Giovanna
  • Polluted Politics? Confronting Toxic Discourse, Sex Panic, and Eco Normativity
    Di Chiro, Giovanna Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona Erickson, Bruce
  • Sweet Dark Places: Letters to Gloria Anzaldúa on Disability, Creativity, and the Coatlicue State
    Driskill, Qwo-Li Morales, Aurora Levins Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi Saldivar Hull, Sonia Alarcon, Norma Urquijo-Ruiz, Rita E.
  • Toxic Pregnancies: Speculative Futures, Disabling Environments, and Neoliberal Biocapital
    Fritsch, Kelly Jaquette Ray, Sarah Sibara, Jay
  • Disabilities
    Grossman, Sara. J.
  • The Womb Wanders Not: Enhancing Endometriosis Education in a Culture of Menstrual Misinformation
    Guidone, Heather C. Bobel, Chris Winkler, Inga T. Fahs, Breanne Hasson, Katie Ann Kissling, Elizabeth Arveda Roberts, Tomi-Ann
  • Reassessing the Evidence for the Link between Dioxin and Endometriosis: From Molecular Biology to Clinical Epidemiology
    Guo, Sun-Wei Simsa, Peter Kyama, Cleophas M. Mihályi, Attila Fülöp, V. Othman, Essam-Eldin R. D’Hooghe, Thomas M.
  • Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin
    Haraway, Donna
  • Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
    Haraway, Donna
  • Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is Strong Objectivity?
    Harding, Sandra Cudd, Ann Andreasen, Robin
  • Sick Woman Theory
    Hedva, Johanna
  • Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness
    hooks, bell
  • Environmental Justice Storytelling: Angels and Isotopes at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
    Houston, Donna
  • The Politicization of Ill Bodies in Campania, Italy
    Iengo, Ilenia Armiero, Marco
  • Bodies of Naples: A Journey in the Landscapes of Porosity
    Iovino, Serenella Iovino, Serenella
  • Toxic Epiphanies: Dioxin, Power, and Gendered Bodies in Laura Conti’s Narratives on Seveso
    Iovino, Serenella Gaard, Greta Estok, Simon C. Oppermann, Serpil
  • The Pain of Endo Existence: Toward a Feminist Disability Studies Reading of Endometriosis
    Jones, Cara E.
  • This Is Disability Justice
    Lamm, Nomi Berne, Patty Abadani, Kiyaan
  • Making Live and Letting Die: Cancerous Bodies between Anthropocene Necropolitics and Chthulucene Kinship
    Lykke, Nina
  • Associations between Exposure to Organochlorine Chemicals and Endometriosis in Experimental Studies: A Systematic Review Protocol
    Matta, Komodo Ploteau, Stéphane Coumoul, Xavier Koual, Meriem Bizec, Bruno Le Antignac, Jean-Philippe Cano-Sancho, German
  • What Can’t a Body Do?
    Murphy, Michelle
  • Increased Levels of Polychlorobiphenyls in Italian Women with Endometriosis
    Porpora, Maria Grazia Ingelido, Anna Maria Domenico, Alessandro Di Ferro, Annamaria Crobu, Manuela Pallante, Debora Cardelli, Massimo Cosmi, Ermeraldo V. Felip, Elena De
  • Endometriosis in Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) following Chronic Exposure to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
    Rier S., D. Martin Bowman, R. Dmowski, P. Becker, J.
  • Rachel Carson Was Right—Then and Now
    Seager, Joni MacGregor, Sherilyn
  • Italian ‘Triangle of Death’ Linked to Waste Crisis
    Senior, Kathryn Mazza, Alfredo
  • Can the Subaltern Speak?
    Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty Morris, Rosalind
  • SENTIERI. Studio epidemiologico nazionale dei territori e degli insediamenti esposti a rischio da inquinamento: Quinto Rapporto
    Zona, A. et al