Toxic trespass

Brown, Phil; Rosa, Vanessa De La; Cordner, Alissa

doi:10.7765/9781526137005.00011

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“…The sociologists and geographers who produced these early studies were soon joined by urban planning researchers, who documented inequitable access to transportation, housing, parks, and other amenities (Anguelovski et al 2018;Karner et al 2018). Research in the health sciences began to study urban residents' disproportionate exposure to air, water, and noise pollution; agricultural workers' and communities' exposure to pesticides, chemical runoff, and noxious fumes; and workers' and fenceline communities' exposure to industrial chemicals and other hazards (Brown, de la Rosa, and Cordner 2020). Health researchers increasingly integrated methods of exposure monitoring, mapping, toxicology, and epidemiology to analyze the distribution and impacts of cumulative environmental and social stressors in EJ communities and workplaces (Solomon et al 2016).…”

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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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Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice

2024

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Introduction

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Petrochemical Planet

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The introduction sets out the core research questions, argument, contribution, methodology, and structure of the book. First, it introduces the context of the global petrochemical industry as a toxic and contested yet essential and pervasive industry that society depends on, and one which faces threats to its core business from escalating global environmental and societal pressures. Next, it outlines the core argument of the book about the petrochemical planet and multiscalar battles of industrial transformation, including corporate worldviews, environmental justice perspectives, and debates about just and sustainable transformations. The multi-sited and multiscalar methodology of the book is then discussed, including questions of research design, data collection, ethics, and collaboration. Finally, the introduction examines the “wicked problem” of changing complex industrial capitalist systems.

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The Petrochemical Game of War

2023

Petrochemical Planet

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This chapter aims to “see like the petrochemical industry” on a strategic level, extending the methodology of James Scott’s Seeing Like a State. Alongside observations at dozens of industry events, the analysis is based on business histories and corporate documents. The chapter examines the operational logic of the petrochemical industry in terms of a game, including its playing field, rules for success, and strategies. The petrochemical industry has its own strategic ways of seeing and acting, which stem from its origins in war and its path-dependent history of collusive practices. The implications of this analysis are that corporate petrochemical warfare has become increasingly complex, adaptive, and sophisticated, requiring new methods of resistance.

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Toxic trespass

Cited by 10 publications

References 48 publications

Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice

Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice

Introduction

The Petrochemical Game of War

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