Envisioning the political ecology of mitigation in a microelectronic disaster setting

Journal of Political Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 217-237

  Little, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; IBM; Neoliberalism; Political ecology; Toxics mitigation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; ETHNOPOLITICS; MITIGATION; NEOLIBERALISM; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896995350     PISSN: 10730451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2458/v20i1.21765     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Allen, B. 2003. Uneasy alchemy: citizens and experts in Louisiana's chemical corridor dispute. Cambridge: MIT Press.
2. Auyero, J. and Débora S. 2009. Flammable: environmental suffering in an Argentine shantytown. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Beck, U. 2006. Living in the world risk society. Economy and Society 35(3): 239-345.
4. 1999. World risk society. Cambridge: Polity Press.
5. Bennett, Jane. 2010. Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
6. Berman, M. 1982. All that is solid melts into air: the experience of modernity. New York: Penguin.
7. Boggard, W.C. 1988. Bringing social theory to hazards research: conditions and consequences of the mitigation of environmental hazards. Sociological Perspectives 31(2):147-168.
8. Bourdieu, P. 1977. Outline of a theory of practice. Richard Nice, trans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
9. Brenner, N. and N. Theodore. 2007. Neoliberalism and the regulation of "environment". In Heynen, N. J. McCarthy, S. Prudham, and P. Robbins (eds.) Neoliberal environments. London and New York: Routledge. Pp.153-159.
10. Caplan, P. (ed.) 2000. Risk revisited. London: Pluto Press.
11. Castree, N. 2007. Neoliberal ecologies. In Heynen, N., J. McCarthy, S. Prudham, and P. Robbins (eds.) Neoliberal environments. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 281-286.
12. Checker, M. 2005. Polluted promises: environmental racism and the search for justice in a southern town. New York: New York University Press.
13. Chiu, W.A. et al. 2013. Human health effects of trichloroethylene: key findings and scientific issues. Environmental health perspectives 121(3):303-311.
14. Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. 1987. A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia. Brian Massumi, trans. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
15. Douglas, M. 1993. The idea of a home: a kind of space. In Mack A. (ed.) Home: a place in the world. New York and London: New York University Press. Pp.261-281.
16. Edelstein, M.R. 2004. Contaminated communities: coping with residential toxic exposure. Boulder: Westview.
17. 1986. Toxic exposure and the inversion of home. Journal of Architecture and Planning Research 3: 237-251.
18. Edelstein, M.R., and Makofske W.J. 1998. Radon's deadly daughters: science, environmental policy, and the politics of risk. London: Rowman and Littlefield.
19. Erikson, K. 1994. A new species of trouble: explorations in disaster, trauma, and community. New York: Norton.
20. 1991 A new species of trouble. In Crouch S. and J.S. Kroll-Smith (eds.) Communities at risk: community responses to technological disasters. New York: Peter Lang. Pp.12-29
21. Freudenburg, W.R. and T. Jones. 1991. Attitudes and stress in the presence of technological risk: a test of the Supreme Court hypothesis. Social Forces 69(4):1143-1168.
22. Giddens, A. 1990. The consequences of modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
23. Gramza, J. 2009. Life in the plume: IBM's pollution haunts a village. The Post-Standard, January 11.
24. Harvey, D. 1985. The geopolitics of capitalism. In D. Gregory and J.Urry (eds.) Social relations and spatial structures. London: Macmillan. Pp.128-163
25. Henke, C.R. 2008. Cultivating science, harvesting power: science and industrial agriculture in California. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
26. Illich, I. 1977. Disabling professions. In Illich et al. (eds.) Disabling professions. London: Marion Boyers. Pp11-40.
27. Inglod, T. 2000. The perception of the environment: essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill. London and New York: Routledge.
28. Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council. 2007. Vapor intrusion pathway: a practical guideline. ITRC Technical and Regulatory Guidance Document. January.
29. Kroll-Smith, J.S., and S. Couch. 1989. The real disaster is above ground: a mine fire and social conflict. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
30. Kuletz, V.L. 1998. The tainted desert: environmental ruin in the American West. New York and London: Routledge.
31. Lerner, S.D. 2010. Sacrifice zones: the front lines of toxic chemical exposure in the United States. Cambridge: MIT Press.
32. Little, P.C. 2012a. Another angle on pollution experience: toward an emotional ecology of risk mitigation. Ethos 40(4): 431-452.
33. 2012b. Environmental justice discomfort and disconnect in IBM's tainted birthplace: micropolitical ecology perspective. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 23(2): 92-109.
34. 2010. "Instead of tumbleweed, we have mitigation systems": an ethnography of toxics risk, mitigation, and advocacy in IBM's deindustrialized birthplace. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University.
35. 2009. Negotiating community engagement and science in the federal environmental public health sector. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 23(2): 94-118.
36. Meyer, J.M. 2001. Political nature: environmentalism and the interpretation of western thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
37. Paulson S., L.L. Gezon, and M.J. Watts. 2003. Locating the political in political ecology: an introduction. Human Organization 62(3): 205-217.
38. Siegel, L. 2009. A stakeholder's guide to vapor intrusion. Center for Public Environmental Oversight. November.
39. 2008. Report on the national stakeholders' panel on vapor intrusion. Center for Public Environmental Oversight. San Diego, CA. March 12.
40. 2007. Report on the Albany vapor intrusion activists' meeting. Center for Public Environmental Oversight. November.
41. Singer, M. 2011. Down cancer alley: the lived experience of health and environmental suffering in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 25(2):141-163.
42. Sjöberg, L. 1999. Consequences of perceived risk: demand for mitigation. Journal of Risk Research 2(2): 129-149.
43. Slovic, P. 2001. The perception of risk. London: Earthscan.
44. 1992. Perception of risk: reflections on the psychometric paradigm. In Golding D. and Krimsky S. (eds.) Theories of risk. London: Praeger. Pp.117-152.
45. 1987. Perception of risk. Science 236(4799): 280-285.
46. Tarr, J. A. 1996. The search for the ultimate sink: urban pollution in historical perspective. Ohio: University of Akron Press.
47. Tsing, A. L. 2005. Friction: an ethnography of global connection. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
48. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2008. Indoor air vapor intrusion mitigation approaches. Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory. EPA/600/R-08-115. October.
49. 1994. Model standards and techniques for control of radon in new residential buildings. US Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Radiation (6604-J). EPA 402-R-94-009. March.
50. 1993. Air/Superfund national technical guidance study series: options for developing and evaluating mitigation strategies for indoor air impacts at CERCLA Sites. EPA-451/R-93-012. September.
51. Walker, P. 2007. Political ecology: where is the politics? Progress in Human Geography 31(3):363-369.
52. Wolf, E. 1999. Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis. Berkeley: University of California Press.