Toxic heritage legacies, futures, and environmental justice
"Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue. Bringing together case studies, visual essays and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume pro...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton Park, Oxon :
Routledge
[2024]
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| Colección: | Key issues in cultural heritage.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009763127306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- References
- Series General Co-Editors' Foreword
- Toxic Heritage: An Introduction
- Premise and Genesis
- Themes
- Organization and Format
- References
- Section 1. Introduction: Framing Toxicity
- References
- 1. Toxic legacies of slickens in California: a mobile heritage of hydraulic mining debris
- Introduction: critical pedagogies of the toxic
- Slickens
- Making visible
- Looking forward
- References
- Visual essay 1. Extraction old and new: Toxic legacies of mining the desert in southwestern Africa
- Roots and routes of extraction
- Ilmenite
- Diamonds
- Copper
- Zinc
- Acid and Arsenic
- Uranium
- Future mining
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography (all URLs last accessed 17 July 2022)
- 2. Of blaes and bings: the (non)toxic heritage of the West Lothian oil shale industry
- Toxic language
- Geosocialities
- Blaes and bings
- Emergence
- Transformation
- Monumentality
- Revaluation
- Reimagination
- Discussion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 3. When Toxic Heritage is Forever: Confronting PFAS Contamination and Toxicity as Lived Experience
- Wildest Hellcat
- Lost Soles
- Black Plumes
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- 4. Plasticity and Time: Using the Stress-Strain Curve as a Framework for Investigating the Wicked Problems of Marine Pollution and Climate Change
- Introduction
- The 'Wicked Problem' of Plastic Pollution
- The Archaeology of Plastics
- The Stress-Strain Curve
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Section 2. Introduction: The Politics of Toxic Heritage
- 5. Heritage-led Regeneration and the Sanitisation of Memory in the Lower Swansea Valley
- Introduction
- Chronology of post-industrial Swansea
- Politics of heritage projects
- Heritage, disaster, decontamination.
- Bibliography
- Case Study 1. Ghost Wrecks of the Anthropocene: An Enduring Toxic Legacy of the Pacific War
- Bibliography
- 6. Military Legacies and Indigenous Heritage in Canada's Newest National Park Reserve
- Introduction
- Background
- Colonialism and the Military
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Note
- Works Cited
- Case study 2. Trash Fires as Toxic Heritage in Palestine
- How can the term "toxic heritage" help us understand trash fires on occupied territory?
- References
- 7. Politics of Mining: Toxic Heritage in the Atacama Desert
- Introduction
- Politics of Toxic Heritage
- Toxic Mining Heritages: Between Effects and Affection
- Copper
- Lithium
- Conclusions: After Mining?
- Notes
- References
- Case study 3. Sticky, Stinky, Squalid: The Toxic Leachate of Households' Waste in an Area of Urban Decay in Tehran (Iran)
- Areas of Urban Decay in a Crowded City: Tehran
- Waste Management in Historical Areas of Urban Decay
- Sticky, Stinky, and ... Heritage
- References
- 8. Toxic Landmarking and Technoprecarious Heritage in Ghana
- Introduction
- Brief History of the Agbogbloshie Area
- Landmarking Agbogbloshie: Remains of Toxic Resettlement
- Landmarking Agbogbloshie: Creative Neoliberal Installments
- Conclusion
- References
- Section 3. Introduction: Affected Communities, Activism, and Agency
- 9. Reluctant Returns: Repatriating a Poisoned Past
- Understanding the Problem: A History of Toxic Treatments
- With Dignity and Respect
- A Homecoming Deferred
- Damned If You Do
- Why Did You Give Them Back?
- Giving Voice to Bear
- Identify and Isolate
- A Global Problem
- Colonisation's Painful Legacy
- Moving Forward: Collaboration is Key
- Notes
- Bibliography.
- Case study 4. Public Memory of Toxic Displacement: Heavy Metal Contamination and Superfund Remediation in Federally Assisted Housing Communities
- References
- Visual Essay 2. Translating and transforming toxicity: Moving between ethnography and graphic art
- 10. Preservation by Demolition: Toxic Heritage in Contemporary China
- Resistance to relocation
- Bargaining with toxic heritage
- Preservation by demolition: Destroying and remaking toxic heritage
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 11. Unwanted Legacy and Memory of the Milieu: Toxic Materials, Remediation, Habituation (Estarreja, Portugal)
- Introduction - Damaged World
- Between Land and Water, the Place is Magnificent
- Among Optimism and Utopia
- The Pessimistic View
- Unwanted Legacy in Estarreja
- A Logical Continuum of Heritage Studies
- Toxic Materials
- The Materiality of Toxic Substances
- Remediation and Memory of the Milieu
- Legacy versus Heritage
- Recovery of a Contaminated Ditch
- A Border Case
- Habituation and Activatable Memory
- The City's Image
- The Worrying Comes from Others
- A Kind of Balance
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 12. Environmental and Embodied Agro-Toxic Heritage in Rural Uruguay: From Recognition to Transition to Sustainability Among Dairy Farmers
- Introduction
- Toxic Heritage and the Search for Alternatives to the Conventional Dairy Production Model
- Final remarks
- References
- Section 4. Introduction: Narratives of Toxic Heritage
- 13. Dirty Laundry: The Toxic Heritage of Dry Cleaning in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Introduction
- A Brief History of Dry Cleaning
- Narratives of Dry-Cleaning Heritage in Indianapolis
- Activist Voices: Archives, Journalism, and Participatory Heritage
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography.
- Case study 5. When Cleaning up the Battlefields from When Times of War have Polluted Soils in Times of Peace: A Case Study of a Silent but Visible Toxic Legacy from the Great War
- Introduction
- Post-Conflict War Waste
- The Case of the Forest of Spincourt
- Conclusion. The Silent Legacy of the Great War
- Bibliography
- 14. Toxic City: Industrial Residues, the Body and Community Activism as Heritage Practice in Glasgow
- Glasgow: Industrial Legacies, Toxicity and the Limits of Regulation
- Chemical Chernobyl": Environmental Injustice, Activism and the Glasgow Chemical Industry
- Concluding Thoughts: Narrating, Curating and Memorialising a Toxic City
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Case study 6. Rubber as (toxic) heritage: Amazonian Knowledge and the rubber Industry
- Introduction to natural rubber
- Rubber heritage in the Amazon
- References
- Case study 7. Three memory frameworks on Chernobyl
- References
- 15. The Toxic Anthracite = Toxic Heritage
- Introduction
- Background
- Nostalgia in a Toxic Environment
- Conclusion
- References
- Section 5. Introduction: Approaches and Interventions
- 16. Environmental Justice Tours: Transformative Narratives of Struggle, Solidarity, and Activism
- Introduction
- History of Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) and Ironbound, Newark, NJ
- History &
- Evolution of EJ Tours at ICC: Building Solidarity and Organizing
- Evolution of EJ Tours at ICC: Audiences and Movement Goals
- We Speak for Ourselves: Reclaiming Spaces of Resistance and Reconstituting Possibilities
- EJ Tours as Movement Tools for Making Demands for Accountability and Action
- Conclusion - EJ Tours as Portals to Environmental Justice Futures
- Bibliography
- Visual Essay 3. Getting the Lead Out, One Community at a Time
- References.
- Case study 8. Climate Museum UK: Practices in Response to the Traumasphere
- Notes
- References
- 17. Toxic Heritage and Reparations: Activating Memory for Environmental and Climate Justice
- Introduction
- Climate as a Problem of History and Memory
- Applying EJ Principles to Heritage Work: Participatory Public Memory for Climate Justice
- Newark
- New Orleans
- Puerto Rico
- Conclusion
- References
- Case study 9. From Leftovers To Takeover: Latent Insurgency Amidst The System's Remnants
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Visual Essay 4. Taking Care of Nuclear Waste
- Introduction
- From existential risk to global climate action
- The art of forgetting
- Taking a people-centred approach
- Uncertainty as an opportunity for care
- Toxicity of cultural heritage
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 18. Toxic and Wasted: Artists Thinking About How to Engage with Material Futures
- Planning for Nuclear Waste Repositories: Intended and Unintended Monuments
- Art, Waste, and Heritage: Land Art and Industrial Landscapes
- Reclaiming Landscape: Indigenous Artists
- Remaining Connected: From Marking to Living with Waste
- Art and Toxic Memories
- Nothing is Wasted
- Everything is Toxic
- Heritage is Everything
- References
- Conclusion: Why toxic heritage matters
- References
- Index.
