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Toxins or Toxicants
WebToxins are poisons produced within living cells or organs of plants, animals, and bacteria.Toxicants are synthetic, human-made, toxic chemicals. The difference is not merely one of semantics. Until the late 19th century, nearly all toxic substances were called toxins and they were normally made up of animal and plant positions and naturally …
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CFP: Queer/Crip Contagions Discard Studies
WebFull Papers due February 1, 2017. This special issue charts the limits and possibilities of queer/crip biosocial politics by examining the ways these intersect and co-mingle with the narratives, practices, and temporalities of contagion. Feminist scholars have long theorized “queer” and “crip” as unsettling, strange, twisted, or disruptive.
Body Burdens, Biomonitoring, and Biocitizenship Discard Studies
WebBody burdens become legible through practices of biomonitoring, and sometimes through claims of biocitizenship – through which life becomes the basis for making demands on the state (Murphy 2008, Petryna 2002). The following abstracts highlight work being done in the humanities and social sciences to query how the notion …
Bibliography on critical approaches to toxics and toxicity
WebCritical approaches are those that question premises, assumptions, and ways that things become normal or stable. Toxicity, toxins, and toxicants are areas of critical concern because controversies over what they mean, how they act, how they come into being and where, and what counts as evidence have high stake ramifications.
CFP: The Theory and Practice of the Six Non-Naturals (c.1400-1700)
WebHealthy Living in Pre-Modern Europe. The Theory and Practice of the Six Non-Naturals (c.1400-1700) Conference Venue: Institute of Historical Research, Bloomsbury, London. Conference Dates: 13-14 September 2013. This conference seeks to bring together scholars working on topics related. to the role played by the six Non …
Take a deep breath – here’s what 2016 revealed about the deadly …
WebGary Haq, University of York. Beijing, London, Mexico City, New Delhi and Paris are among the cities that have drawn attention for their dangerously high air pollution levels in 2016 – but they’re not alone. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed that 92% of the world’s urban population now live in cities where the air is toxic.. In India, …
The power (& disempowerment) of Menstrual Hygiene Management
Webby Shobita Parthasarathy. In honor of Menstrual Hygiene day (May 28, for the 28 days of the menstrual cycle), it is important to reflect on how development initiatives focused on menstrual health and sanitary pads in Southern countries actually disempower women as knowers and innovators (I focus here on Indian women).. Today, there are …
Conference on waste and pollution in healthcare Discard Studies
WebHealthcare Without Harm is an NGO dedicated to promoting environmental justice inside of hospitals and healthcare facilities. They are an international coalition of hospitals and health care systems, community groups, labor unions, environmental organizations, and religious groups that first came together over dioxin emissions from …
“A discard in the fountain” by Eric Friedman Discard Studies
WebFor the better part of a week last year, this corrugated, cardboard box sat in the much-maligned central fountain in Journal Square in Jersey City. I chose this symbolic discard as the focus for the blog because the box effectively stands in for the unfortunate decay evident in the central plaza in New Jersey’s second largest city.
CFP-Crip Technoscience Discard Studies
WebEdited by Kelly Fritsch, Aimi Hamraie, Mara Mills, and David Serlin. We invite submissions to a peer-reviewed themed section of Catalyst on the topic of “Crip Technoscience” in order to bring critical feminist perspectives to the study of disability, science, and technology, as well as meaningfully intervene in political debates related to …
Pollution is Colonialism Discard Studies
WebPollution is Colonialism. Colonialism in Canada is an ongoing structure whereby settler society and government assert sovereignty over lands already occupied by Indigenous peoples. This includes disrupting and exterminating Indigenous life, values, and self-determination, as well as disruption of established relationships between bodies, …
Review of ‘Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the
WebRichard S. Newman’s recent book offers a new history of Love Canal, the neighborhood near Niagara Falls that became notoriously contaminated by buried chemical waste. As residents became aware of the leaching chemicals and associated health risks, they organized to investigate the problems and demand government action.
Article Alert! New texts in discard studies Discard Studies
WebSince discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a monthly table of contents alert for articles, reports, and books in the field. There are the most recent publications as of the end of May, 2016.
Guest Authors Discard Studies
WebMohammed Rafi Arefin is a PhD Student in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests sit at the intersection of urban geography, geographies of waste and garbage, emotional and psychoanalytic geography, and development studies. Alex V. Barnard is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley.
LA’s Shade Balls: The ecological costs of plastics in water
Web08/16/2015 Max Liboiron. From @rrosewarne Twitter feed. The media has widely reported on the 20,000 black plastic balls tumbling down the slopes of Los Angeles Reservoir last week. Covering a body of water with black plastic balls (aka. “Shade Balls”) when people have been warned against throwing plastic into waterways has sparked a number
Sanitation Workers: Hurricane Sandy’s First Responders
WebSince Sandy, they’ve been honored alongside NYPD and NYFD, a petition to add them to the first responder list for gas lines gained over 6,000 signatures in short order, and many of the on-the-ground workers for the Department of Sanitation New York (DSNY) self-identify as first responders, as the interview above demonstrates.
Roundtable reviews of “Banned: A History of Pesticides and the …
WebHumanities Net (H-net), has just published a free, open access roundtable of reviews of Frederick Davis’ Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology (Yale University Press, 2014). Banned and its reviews look at the interface between environmental history and the history of science with an emphasis on how we’ve come to …
The Dirt Discard Studies
WebThe Dirt. 02/24/2020 guestauth0r. Discard studies is a young field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities
Sending surplus food to charity is not the way to reduce …
WebReducing food loss and waste is one important action we can take. When food waste is sent to landfill, it decomposes to methane, which is 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. In addition, food waste represents a tremendous loss of the energy, land, water and labour used to produce the food. And we waste a lot …
Consider the Vulture: An Ethical Approach to Roadkill
WebWe need an ethical approach to roadkill that considers the vultures as well as the deer. * * *. You can pack only so many deer carcasses into the back of a pickup truck, and it’s starting to get late in the day anyhow. If we’re going to make it to the landfill by 5 p.m., Bill says, we need to drive there now. It’s mid-November in
A Bibliography for Teaching Flint Discard Studies
WebThis bibliography is designed for professors who want to "teach Flint" in their classrooms. The Flint, Michigan water crisis is an extreme but quintessential case study that shows the intersections of environmental health, governance, the built environment, systemic racism, and social inequity.
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