Canadian literary environments

Only by thinking together the sometimes divisive politics of environmental racism (in which environmental risks are borne disproportionately by poor minorities), and rural poverty (often stereotyped provocatively or dismissively as primarily a white issue) does it become possible to consider how rural and urban, visible and invisible minorities, get sidelined in mainstream environmentalist discourse.1 There's an additional reason why Canadianists of the poco and eco persuasions need to talk to one another, and it has to do with the sometimes uneasy blend of academic/theoretical and advocacy work that both do.