Air Justice in Louisville

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Dec 2024

Megan Poole ; Shavonnie Carthens ; Eboni Neal Cochran ; Abigail Koenig

Abstract

One of the root causes of health disparities in Louisville, Kentucky, is air pollution, a disparity rooted in the city’s history of environmental racism. Residents who engage in local environmental justice efforts face other systemic barriers, all of which intersect in the jargon-filled public notices about air pollution that circulate throughout the city. This article discusses a feminist environmental health literacy coalition formed to promote health literacy and create translations of public notices in plain language. Our preliminary theory of Air Justice maintains that health literacy is a social practice and that intersectional coalitions provide rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) scholars with a local approach to scholarship that mirrors the diverse and multiple situatedness of the communities in which they work.

Journal: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Published: 2024-12-17
DOI: 10.5744/rhm.2024.2084
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Topics: race and writing

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