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Published: 01 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822391258-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9125-8
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By Fabiana Li
Published: 09 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... La Oroya environmental health Corporate Social Responsibility pollution lead ...
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By Susanna Trnka, Catherine Trundle
Published: 10 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7305-6
... social contract personal responsibility environmental health politics of childhood Czech Republic ...
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By Susanna Trnka, Catherine Trundle
Published: 10 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7305-6
... social contract personal responsibility environmental health politics of childhood Czech Republic ...
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By Fabiana Li
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375869-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... conflicts over mining within national debates and historical processes. Over La Oroya’s history, toxic emissions have been variously treated as a problem of industrial hygiene and occupational health, and more recently, as an environmental and public health concern affecting local residents, the neighboring...
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By Fabiana Li
Published: 09 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
..., this chapter situates recent conflicts over mining within national debates and historical processes. Over La Oroya’s history, toxic emissions have been variously treated as a problem of industrial hygiene and occupational health, and more recently, as an environmental and public health concern affecting local...
Published: 10 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373056-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7305-6
... responsibility into civic engagement and endeavoring to reclaim the state as the ultimate moral agent. social contract personal responsibility environmental health politics of childhood Czech Republic ...
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By Diane M. Nelson
Published: 12 October 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7507-4
... life gold mining resource extraction antimining activism referenda pollution health defense of territory development precision and uncertainty voting grassroots organizing chemical exposures environmental damage ...
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By Susanna Trnka, Catherine Trundle
Published: 10 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7305-6
... forensics political violence juridical responsibility Cyprus social contract personal responsibility environmental health politics of childhood Czech Republic Sierra Leone state violence truth and reconciliation criminal court accountability ...
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By Susanna Trnka, Catherine Trundle
Published: 10 March 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7305-6
... responsibilization harm reduction audit culture responsibilization managerialism New Zealand Britain social contract personal responsibility environmental health politics of childhood Czech Republic mining corporate social responsibility social movements responsibilization ...
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By Alex M. Nading
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060864-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9430-2
... The conclusion discusses the major lessons from the preceding chapters. First, any movement for health in an age of irreversible environmental change requires a rejection of models of and for living that presume the possibility not just of ecological equilibrium but of social and environmental...
Published: 15 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375449-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7544-9
... of medical and public health intervention. As an epigenetic vector, the maternal body is at once a background element, a medium for the fetus. Yet it is also a ‘critical’ developmental context in which environmental exposures are amplified, cues are transmitted, and genes are programmed. Reflection...
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By Alex M. Nading
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060864-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9430-2
...; agrochemical regimes; social security; and dialysis treatment. An argument is presented for the value of linking plantation studies to medical anthropology, and for theorizing planetary health from the perspective of localized, grassroots action. sugarcane plantations environmental justice uncertainty...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-146
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... concessions as well as infrastructure projects, such as building dams and roads. The critiques have focused on the high costs to the health and diversity of ecosystems and to the well-being and livelihoods of local communities vulnerable to pollution and displacement. For environmental movements throughout...
Published: 27 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027607-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2760-7
... This chapter focuses on the Yaqui resistance to unregulated pesticide spraying and the transportation of toxic pesticides in Mexico, resulting in devastating health effects for Yaqui women and children. Though the North American Free Trade Agreement bans some toxic pesticides in the United...
Published: 27 November 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2760-7
... This chapter focuses on the Yaqui resistance to unregulated pesticide spraying and the transportation of toxic pesticides in Mexico, resulting in devastating health effects for Yaqui women and children. Though the North American Free Trade Agreement bans some toxic pesticides in the United...
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By Alex M. Nading
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9430-2
... sugarcane plantations environmental justice uncertainty activism moral economy ...
Published: 07 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373162-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7316-2
... are used by Indigenous women as inspiration for various activist movements for environmental justice, women’s health and healing, and food sovereignty. Storytelling animal studies desire and sexuality Christian ideology ...
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By Alex M. Nading
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 06 May 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060864-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9430-2
... photography, and storytelling become essential tools in environmental politics. mediation social media photography epidemic narrative indexicality ...
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By Aihwa Ong
Published: 07 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373643-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7364-3
... months. In this climate of health vigilance, there was increased focus on the mutability of viruses (SARS, avian flu virus, etc.) and worries about rapid nonhuman to human transmission in a region densely interlinked by commerce, migration, travel, and environmental vectors. The chapter frames the battle...