Available to Be Poisoned
Toxicity as a Form of Life
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2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1981-3 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1981-3 (ISBN)
This book explores the broader question of what it means to “live with” toxicity as a condition of life, particularly for disadvantaged communities in India. Mathur argues that the geographically uneven exposure to toxicity is a deliberate strategy of global neoliberalism to ensure that power is concentrated in the hands of the few.
In Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals marks a deliberate and violent relationship with the Earth and its "others," born of colonialism and capitalism’s entwined histories. Mathur offers the concept of "toxicity as a form of life" to signpost the normalization of toxic exposure and analyzes how states use toxicity to control populations on the fringes of our global political economy by making them available to be poisoned.
In Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals marks a deliberate and violent relationship with the Earth and its "others," born of colonialism and capitalism’s entwined histories. Mathur offers the concept of "toxicity as a form of life" to signpost the normalization of toxic exposure and analyzes how states use toxicity to control populations on the fringes of our global political economy by making them available to be poisoned.
Dipali Mathur completed her PhD at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Introduction: “Available to Be Poisoned”
Chapter 1. Living in the Toxcene: Unnatural Histories of Our Toxic Present
Chapter 2. Peddlers of Poisons: Chemical Colonialism and Precarious Lives
Chapter 3. Manufacturing Disaster: Bhopal as a Regime of Truth
Chapter 4. Ecological Death-Worlds: Pandemic Politics and Repeating the Toxic Past
Conclusion: India’s Precarious Present
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.09.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 508 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-1981-0 / 1666919810 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-1981-3 / 9781666919813 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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