Life without Lead

Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29546-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 296 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Reihe: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics

Life without Lead examines the social, political, and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic. Drawing from a political ecology of health perspective, the book situates the Uruguayan lead contamination crisis in relation to neoliberal reform, globalization, and the resurgence of the political Left in Latin America. The author traces the rise of an environmental social justice movement, and the local and transnational circulation of environmental ideologies and contested science. Through fine-grained ethnographic analysis, this book shows how combating contamination intersected with class politics, explores the relationship of lead poisoning to poverty, and debates the best way to identify and manage an unprecedented local environmental health problem.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renfrew, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Maps
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Saturn’s Nightmare
1 • To Live, Not Only Survive
2 • This Is Not a Game
3 • La Teja Shall Sing
4 • The Two Fires of ANCAP
5 • New House, New Life
6 • We Are All Contaminated
Conclusion: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Renfrew is Associate Professor of Anthropology at West Virginia University.