Toxic Heritage

Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice
Herausgeber: Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth; May, Sarah

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Produktbeschreibung

Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.

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Produktdetails

• Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781032429977
• ISBN-10: 1032429976
• Artikelnr.: 67679500

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Kryder-Reid is Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies and director of the Cultural Heritage Research Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis. Sarah May is a Senior Consultant in Cultural Heritage at the sustainable development consultancy, Arup.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Introduction: Toxic Heritage: An Introduction. Section 1:
Introduction - Section 1 "Framing Toxicity": Chapter 1: Toxic legacies of
slickens in California: a mobile heritage of hydraulic mining debris;
Visual Essay 1: Visual Essay: Extraction old and new: toxic legacies of
mining the desert in southwestern Africa; Chapter 2: Of blaes and bings:
the (non)toxic heritage of the West Lothian oil shale industry; Chapter 3:
When Toxic Heritage is Forever: Confronting PFAS Contamination and Toxicity
as Lived Experience; Chapter 4: Plasticity and Time: Using the
Stress-Strain Curve as a Framework for Investigating the Wicked Problems of
Marine Pollution and Climate Change. Section 2: Introduction - Section 2
"The Politics of Toxic Heritage": Chapter 5: Heritage-led Regeneration and
the Sanitisation of Memory in the Lower Swansea Valley; Case Study 1: Ghost
Wrecks of the Anthropocene: An Enduring Toxic Legacy of the Pacific War;
Chapter 6: Military Legacies and Indigenous Heritage in Canada's Newest
National Park Reserve; Case Study 2: Trash Fires as Toxic Heritage in
Palestine; Chapter 7: Politics of Mining: Toxic Heritage in the Atacama
Desert; Case Study 3: Sticky, Stinky, Squalid: The toxic leachate of
households' waste in an area of urban decay in Tehran (Iran); Chapter 8:
Toxic Landmarking and Technoprecarious Heritage in Ghana. Section 3:
Section 3 Affected Communities, Activism, and Agency - Introduction:
Chapter 9: Reluctant Returns: Repatriating a Poisoned Past; Case Study 4:
Public Memory of Toxic Displacement: Heavy Metal Contamination and
Superfund Remediation in Federally Assisted Housing Communities; Visual
Essay 2: Translating and Transforming Toxicity: Moving Between Ethnography
and Graphic Art; Chapter 10: Preservation by demolition: Toxic heritage in
contemporary China; Chapter 11: Unwanted Legacy and Memory of the Milieu:
Toxic Materials, Remediation, Habituation (Estarreja, Portugal); Chapter
12: Environmental and Embodied Agro-toxic heritage in Rural Uruguay: From
Recognition to Transition to Sustainability among Dairy Farmers. Section 4
Introduction - Section 4 "Narratives of Toxic Heritage": Chapter 13: Dirty
Laundry: the Toxic Heritage of Dry Cleaning in Indianapolis, Indiana; Case
Study 5: When Cleaning up the Battlefields from Time of War has Polluted
Soils in Time of Peace: A Silent but Visible Toxic Legacy from the Great
War; Chapter 14: Toxic City: Industrial Residues, the Body and Community
Activism as Heritage Practice in Glasgow; Case Study 6: Rubber as (toxic)
heritage: the Amazonian rubber case; Case Study 7: Three memory frameworks
on Chernobyl; Chapter 15: The Toxic Anthracite: Toxic Heritage. Section 5:
Introduction - Section 5 "Approaches and Interventions": Chapter 16:
Environmental Justice Tours: Transformative Narratives of Struggle,
Solidarity and Activism; Visual Essay 3: Getting the Lead Out, One
Community at a Time; Case Study 8: Climate Museum UK: Practices in Response
to the Traumasphere; Chapter 17: Toxic Heritage and Reparations: Activating
Memory for Climate Justice; Case Study 9: Case Study: From Leftovers To
Takeover: Latent Insurgency Amidst the System's Remnants; Visual Essay 4:
Taking care of nuclear waste; Chapter 18: Toxic and Wasted: Artists
Thinking About How to Engage With Material Futures; Conclusion: Why Toxic
Heritage Matters.