<에린 브로코비치>에 나타난 환경 정의와 젠더 정치학 (Environmental Justice and Gender Politics in Erin Brockovich)

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초록

This essay examines the 2000 biographical dram film Erin Brockovich, which represents the story of Erin Brockovich, an American environmental activist who was crucial in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) over groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California in 1993. Employing the notion of environmental justice, this paper explores how Erin Brockovich demonstrates that inequalities of class place poor people at environmental risk and addresses the film’s gender politics. This essay first interrogates the way in which Erin Brockovich suggests that people lacking resources become the main casualties of slow environmental violence. I consider how Erin, the titular character, played by Julia Roberts, mobilizes victims of PG&E’s water crisis and its political implications in terms of reproductive justice. This essay examines the movie’s problematic gender politics as well. Focusing on the film’s portrayal of Erin’s sexualized body and her performance of motherhood, I examine its heteronormative understanding of femininity and motherhood. This paper also considers how Erin Brockovich connects social justice issues with environmental issues. Building on Noel Sturgeon’s term, “environmental reproductive justice,” this paper concludes that the film explores the intersection between reproductive and environmental justice.

영어초록

This essay examines the 2000 biographical dram film Erin Brockovich, which represents the story of Erin Brockovich, an American environmental activist who was crucial in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) over groundwater contamination in Hinkley, California in 1993. Employing the notion of environmental justice, this paper explores how Erin Brockovich demonstrates that inequalities of class place poor people at environmental risk and addresses the film’s gender politics. This essay first interrogates the way in which Erin Brockovich suggests that people lacking resources become the main casualties of slow environmental violence. I consider how Erin, the titular character, played by Julia Roberts, mobilizes victims of PG&E’s water crisis and its political implications in terms of reproductive justice. This essay examines the movie’s problematic gender politics as well. Focusing on the film’s portrayal of Erin’s sexualized body and her performance of motherhood, I examine its heteronormative understanding of femininity and motherhood. This paper also considers how Erin Brockovich connects social justice issues with environmental issues. Building on Noel Sturgeon’s term, “environmental reproductive justice,” this paper concludes that the film explores the intersection between reproductive and environmental justice.

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