Mobile Home Syndrome: Engineered Woods and the Making of a New Domestic Ecology in the Post–World War II Era

Ore, Janet

doi:10.1353/tech.2011.0077

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“…Like learning to become sensitive to environmental change, becoming unaffected too requires work. That my fieldwork was predominated by women's accounts not only resulted from the feminization of body care, domestic care, health care–seeking, and self‐monitoring for bodily dysfunctions (Murphy , 173; Ore , 281). It not only results from the likely increased exposure to domestic chemicals encountered in the course of many of these labors.…”

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Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime

2015

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The air was rich with extrasensory material. Nearer to death, nearer to second sight.-Don DeLillo, White Noise During a six-month stay in a travel trailer in rural Oklahoma, a three-yearold developed small red dots on the backs of her ears, began bruising more easily, and walked through the world more clumsily, constantly toppling over. An older Indiana woman descended into a fog of "fuzzy thinking" and felt that her body was deteriorating at a slightly accelerated rate. A middle-aged man in Ohio sustained a "sick stuffy nose" and "throat problems" for a year and a half. Eye and respiratory-tract irritation, headaches, insomnia, and fatigue slowly crept into the body of a single father in rural Florida. His dreams, which became increasingly menacing over a matter of months, abated in intensity only when he slept next door at his grandparents' house. The stool of a nurse in Texas gradually loosened in consistency. A police officer in Washington State almost entirely ceased eating as his sense of taste began to dull. His wife, experiencing the same sensorial skewing, doused her food with large quantities of salt and noted the "weird air" in their home.The people above, and those who fill this article, began developing subtle and ongoing alterations to their physical constitution after spending time in a

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Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime

2015

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“…The corrosive atmospheres in mobile homes are so pervasive that they harbor three to four times the chemical load of conventional homes. As these toxic vapors suffuse into the bodies of inhabitants, they have given rise to a novel constellation of chronic, enervating symptoms, dubbed “mobile home syndrome” (Ore ).…”

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Shapiro

2019

Journal for the Anthropology of North America

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Making the colonist’s home mobile, disregarding local ecologies and building practices, is foundational to the settler‐colonial project. This article tracks the mobile home from its role as a key architecture of occupation and settlement by the British Empire to being a superlative embodiment of hydrocarbon‐infused commodities and homes after World War II. As the violences of mobile home ownership are coterminous with the violences of settler colonialism, an equitable vision of affordable housing cannot stop at achieving racial parity for toxic/classist loans (for often toxic homes) or greater protections for colonial land tenure.

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Sustainability and toxicity of polymers, plastics, and coatings in buildings

Petrović

2024

Sustainability and Toxicity of Building Materials

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Mobile Home Syndrome: Engineered Woods and the Making of a New Domestic Ecology in the Post–World War II Era

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime

Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime

Manufacturing Home

Sustainability and toxicity of polymers, plastics, and coatings in buildings

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