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As sites of environmental injustice, sacrifice zones are spaces that are neglected, particularly due to their inhabitance by economically poor and/or racially marginalized people, and/or environmental decline caused by waste accumulation. This article demonstrates how these zones are depicted in the plays of Jack Davis as locus of protest and contestation against environmental injustice. The article analyses Davis’s use of subversive methodologies and the insertion of Indigenous forms of representation into a largely western style of performance. The article concludes that Davis’s plays act as counter-normative agencies that contest the very notion of sacrifice zones.

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Eco-theatre Environmental justice Indigenous literature Jack Davis Sacrifice zones

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Environmental justice and sacrifice zones: Reading Jack Davis’s plays

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