Colonial and Patriarchal Dimensions of State-Corporate Harm

Embodying the Powerful in the Global Asbestos Crisis

Marília de Nardin Budó (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2026
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-3095-6 (ISBN)

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This powerful book examines the global asbestos industry's devastating impact on health, communities, and ecosystems, exposing how corporations and governments collaborate to silence victims while prioritizing profits. Drawing on research from Brazil and Italy, it reveals how race, gender and social privilege determine which harms are recognized and which are tolerated.

Grounded in Black feminist and decolonial thought, the book uses the asbestos industry as a lens to expose colonial male-dictions—narratives that shield powerful actors from accountability. Beyond a story of victims versus corporations, it offers a radical reimagining of state-corporate harm through memory and transformative justice.

Marília de Nardin Budó is Assistant Professor at the University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Introduction

1. Temporalities and Territorialities of the Asbestos Industry

2. One Hundred Years of Denial: Magic Realism of Modernity in Brazilian Internal Colonialism

3. Two Colonial Male-Dictions in Brazilian Asbestos Mining

4. A New Gentlemen’s Agreement

5. The Old Lady and the Billionaire

6. Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, for Another Justice

Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.7.2026
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Social Harm
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5292-3095-0 / 1529230950
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-3095-6 / 9781529230956
Zustand	Neuware