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. Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume provides a critical framing of the globally expanding field of toxic heritage. Authors from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies examine toxic heritage as both a material phenomenon and a concept. Organized into five thematic sections, the book explores the meaning and significance of toxic heritage, politics, narratives, affected communities, and activist approaches and interventions. It identifies critical issues and highlights areas of emerging research on the intersections of environmental harm with formal and informal memory practices, while also highlighting the resilience, advocacy, and creativity of communities, scholars, and heritage professionals in responding to the current environmental crises. Toxic Heritage is useful and relevant to scholars and students working across a range of disciplines, including heritage studies, environmental science, archaeology, anthropology, and geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 742g
• ISBN-13: 9781032429991
• ISBN-10: 1032429992
• Artikelnr.: 67681377

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.