Hot Mess

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DRM:
ACS4

Publication Year:
2024

ISBN-13: 9781773637112

<p>No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal.&nbsp;The summer&nbsp;after giving birth, Sarah Marie Wiebe and her baby endured the 2021 heat dome in&nbsp;British&nbsp;Columbia, with temperatures&nbsp;over 20 degrees above normal, creating all-time heat records across the province.&nbsp;It was the deadliest weather event in Canadian history. The extreme heat landed Wiebe in the hospital,&nbsp;dehydrated and separated&nbsp;from her nursing baby from dawn until dusk. So began a year of mothering through heat, fires and floods. The climate emergency&rsquo;s many incarnations shaped Wiebe&rsquo;s politics of parenting and revealed the layers, textures and nuances of the disastrous emergencies we encounter in a world dominated by extractive capitalism.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Drawing on hospital codes to explore the connections, Wiebe opens up tender conversations about intimate matters of how our bodies respond to emergency interventions: informed consent, emergency C-sections, reproductive mental health, and anti-colonial and anti-racist resistance. A critical ecofeminist scholar, Wiebe&nbsp;invites collective envisioning and enacting of&nbsp;caring,&nbsp;ethical relations between humans and the planet, including our atmospheres, lands, waters, animals, plants and each other.</p>