The environmentalism of the poor was recognized by neighboring fields before literary ecocriticism

Evidence

In other areas of the humanities and social sciences—notably environmental history, cultural geography, and cultural anthropology—a substantial body of work arose much earlier in the borderlands between postcolonial and environmental studies, work that recognized, among other things, the political and cultural significance of the environmentalism of the poor. Yet within literary studies, a critical discipline for both the environmental humanities and postcolonial studies, such crossover work was long inhibited by a widespread assumption that the subjects and methodologies of the two fields were divergent, even incompatible, not least in their visions of what counts as political. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 716

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘environmentalism of the poor’ concept builds directly on Nixon’s ch.22 claim that forced necessity proliferates indigenous, non-Western environmentalisms. — connects to: Guha influenced environmental social sciences years before ecocriticism absorbed his critique. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 782