No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action. Phil Brown and Edwin J. Mikkelsen.

Button, Gregory

doi:10.1525/aa.1992.94.1.02a00960

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“…In response, community scientists advocate for open data (ensuring that anyone can freely share and use data) and open science (ensuring research is accessible) as important components of power sharing in the research process. EJ groups have employed this grassroots-led science in urban street science (Corburn 2005) and popular epidemiology (Brown and Mikkelsen 1997), which engage residents in research to inform community organizing on issues such as air pollution, toxic contamination, transportation planning, and access to healthy food (Davies and Mah 2020b).…”

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“…Environmental monitoring involves taking samples from one or more locations to measure hazards in any environmental media. CER has documented contaminants in soils and other environmental media near hazardous waste sites (Brown and Mikkelsen 1997;Ramirez-Andreotta et al 2015). CER has also measured exposure to air pollution (Commodore et al 2017) from sources such as diesel bus depots (Kinney et al 2000), ports (e.g., Garcia et al 2013), and industrial hog farms (Wing et al 2008).…”

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Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice

2024

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Ground Truths shows how community-engaged research contributes to environmental justice for Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing data that can influence decisions, and transforming researchers’ relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit. The book outlines the main steps in conducting community-engaged research, evaluates the major research methods used, and addresses institutional barriers to this kind of scholarship in academia. A critical synthesis of research in many fields, Ground Truths provides an original framework for aligning community-engaged research and environmental justice, and applies the framework in chapters on public health, urban planning, conservation, law and policy, community economic development, and food justice and sovereignty.

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“…Jahrhunderts thematisierten das Verhältnis der beiden Erkenntnismodi auf unterschiedliche Weise, bevor Für die Sozialtheoretiker des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts halten diese naturwissenschaftlichen Diskussionen ein Arsenal an Begründungselementen und Sichtweisen auf die beiden Erkenntnismodi bereit (Brown 1997;Singy 2006), das sie zur Plausibilisierung des von ihnen entworfenen Gesellschaftswissens verwenden. Sie navigieren zwischen beiden Plausibilitätsressourcen und wählen unterschiedliche Wege zur Begründung über die ›Beobachtung‹.…”

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“…Häufig ist dieses Experimentieren, das zeigen auch die AIDS-Aktivisten:innen in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren, aus körperlichen Selbstbeobachtungen gewonnen worden. Patient:innen sprachen über ihre Körper, wie Einwohner über die Erfahrungen mit ihrer unmittelbaren Umwelt und den Giften in ihrer nahräumlichen Nachbarschaft sprachen (Epstein 1996;Brown/Mikkelsen 1997;Brown 2007).…”

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Wer sich aufmacht, der Rede vom Plausiblen nachzuspüren, kommt zu einem eigenartigen Befund: In Alltag und Wissenschaft sind Aussagen, dass etwas »plausibel« ist, nahezu allgegenwärtig. Auf der anderen Seite zeigt sich, dass wissenschaftliche Konzeptualisierungen der im Begriff anklingenden Bedeutungen selten sind. Der Band bietet daher eine interdisziplinäre kulturwissenschaftliche Erkundung des Konzepts der Plausibilität und der Praxis des Plausibilisierens. Dabei beleuchten die Beiträger*innen soziokulturelle Erscheinungsformen, Modalitäten, Funktionsweisen, Dynamiken und Strategien des Plausibilisierens - jeweils in unterschiedlichen historischen und regionalen Kontexten.

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“…I demonstrate how locals' experience (and definition) of toxicity is influenced by lay epidemiology, which factors in existing concerns around livelihood, lack of affordable housing, and so on. In doing so, I depart from the existing literature on toxic experiences and popular epidemiology (Levine 1982;Brown and Mikkelsen 1990;Cable and Walsh 1991), which focuses on disputes wherein locals contest expert authorities who claim there is no toxicity. This paper highlights disputes in which expert authorities contest locals claiming that there is no toxicity.…”

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Political Ecology of Urban Agricultural Pollution

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2023

Ecol. Econ. Soc.

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The Yamuna khadar or the floodplains of the river Yamuna in Delhi is a deeply contested agrarian space. While thousands have been involved in farming these floodplains for decades, contestations over their legality, compensation, land use, displacement, and impact on the river, soil, and city have been significant public concerns over the last few decades. In this paper, I focus on one aspect of this agrarian landscape—the toxicity associated with river water due to the pesticides and fertilizers used in agriculture. I examine how toxicity is perceived, discursively constructed, and dealt with by differently located stakeholders in this landscape. The differently located stakeholders associated with the toxic agrarian landscape of Yamuna khadar are not experiencing pollution as a homogenous community, i.e., neither all of them see themselves as suffering from pollution nor do they see themselves as contributing to the toxicity of the landscape in a similar way.

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No Safe Place: Toxic Waste, Leukemia, and Community Action. Phil Brown and Edwin J. Mikkelsen.

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