Part 4 : Anna-Katharina Laboissière. Part 1 : Speculative conservation and assisted evolution : Interventions in extinction timescapes / May-Brith Ohman Nielsen -- Slow observation : Witnessing long-term pollution and environmental racism in cancer alley / Thom Davies -- When does safe mean safe? : Negotiating the disposal of radioactive waste between months and millennia / Iris Borowy -- Part 2 : Ontologies of toxic space. The chemical platoon, the abandoned base, and the village : Human experiences of multiple toxic timescapes in Vietnam / David Biggs -- Toxic flows and societal exposures : The maritime toxic timescape, environmental degradation, and social and political change on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast from the 1950s onward / Anna S. Antonova -- Colonial occupation as a toxic timescape in Anaiwan Country (Australia) / Kate Wright -- Part 3 : Expanding upon the toxic body. Toxic bios : Traversing toxic timescapes through corporeal storytelling / Ilenia Iengo and Marco Armiero -- Storying toxic timescape "trajectories" : Intersections among algal toxins and more-than-human bodies / Jesse D. Peterson -- Embodying fear and toxicity : Environmental protests against west West Germany's final repository for nuclear waste in Gorleben, 1977-1980 / Astrid Mignon Kirchhof -- Toxic timescapes and the double fracture of modernity : Chlordecone contamination of Martinique and Guadeloupe / Malcom Ferdinand -- Part 4 : Conceptualizing toxic futures. The toxic water clock : On the Salton Sea and camp century / Jason R. Parry -- Decision and radioactive principles for the future : Thinking the inheritance of nuclear waste repositories with Gramsci and Derrida / Michael Peterson -- Speculative conservation and assisted evolution : Interventions in extinction timescapes / Anna-Katharina Laboissière.
Summary:
"From radioactive waste to coral reefs, this environmental humanities volume reconsiders contamination and pollution as toxic timescapes: dynamic events with both temporal and spatial dimensions"-- Provided by publisher. "An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet. While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life, politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining, monitoring, or generally coming to terms with them. This volume's contributors argue that the source of this difficulty lies in the struggle to make sense of the intersecting temporal and spatial scales working on the human and more-than-human body, while continuing to acknowledge race, class, and gender in terms of global environmental justice and social inequality. The term toxic timescapes refers to this intricate intersectionality of time, space, and bodies in relation to toxic exposure. As a tool of analysis, it unpacks linear understandings of time and explores how harmful substances permeate temporal and physical space as both event and process. It equips scholars with new ways of creating data and conceptualizing the past, present, and future presence and possible effects of harmful substances and provides a theoretical framework for new environmental narratives. To think in terms of toxic timescapes is to radically shift our understanding of toxicants in the complex web of life. Toxicity, pollution, and modes of exposure are never static; therefore, dose, timing, velocity, mixture, frequency, and chronology matter as much as the geographic location and societal position of those exposed. Together, these factors create a specific toxic timescape that lies at the heart of each contributor's narrative. Contributors from the disciplines of history, human geography, science and technology studies, philosophy, and political ecology come together to demonstrate the complex reality of a toxic existence. Their case studies span the globe as they observe the intersection of multiple times and spaces at such diverse locations as former battlefields in Vietnam, aging nuclear-weapon storage facilities in Greenland, waste deposits in southern Italy, chemical facilities along the Gulf of Mexico, and coral-breeding laboratories across the world." -- Publisher's description
Series:
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.