Agata Mazzeo

Dust Inside (eBook, ePUB)

Fighting and Living with Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Toxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle daily in the name of social and environmental justice. Grounded in a profound, touching ethnography, this book offers an original contribution to understanding global health disasters and grassroots health-based activism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789209327
• Artikelnr.: 59154800

Autorenporträt

Agata Mazzeo is Adjunct Professor of History of Anthropology at the University of Bologna. She has been published in international journals and she has co-authored articles on the asbestos market.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Translation
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: My Path into the Dust
Chapter 1. The Toxic Market of Asbestos and Global Health Disasters
Chapter 2. Osasco: City, Work and Struggles
Chapter 3. Suffering and Embodied Disasters
Chapter 4. The Politics of Anti-Asbestos Activism
Chapter 5. Engaging Global Health, Anti-Asbestos Activism and Ethnography
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index