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... on the significance of labor and environmental justice alliances and divisions in a context of global environmental injustice and systemic issues of social and ecological “expendability.” The analysis examines the problem of enduring toxic injustice, accounting for the barriers facing grassroots struggles...

..., whose lives are often treated as expendable. homicide drug trafficking Sinaloa La Santa Muerte miracle workers Jesús Malverde ...

... The introduction poses the central questions that run through the book, namely why nation-states are willing to expend such enormous amounts of financial and human resources to secure minuscule pieces of land, and why so many ordinary citizens are ready to sacrifice their lives for said pieces...

... Drawing the wide arc of the key themes of the book, this chapter moves these themes to center stage in relation to the concept of “the mere”—the often invisible category of things, beings, and ideas that is (when noticed) regarded as trivial, unimportant, ineffective, expendable, supplemental...

... The first section of the book confronts the human and environmental costs of this expansion of media and shows that it is unsustainable. Chapter 1 gives detailed accounts of the energy expended and matter condensed to make the world work as a mediated network. Beginning with an account of energy...

... of the drug cartels, whose lives are often treated as expendable. homicide drug trafficking Sinaloa La Santa Muerte miracle workers Jesús Malverde This chapter explores the crisis caused by violence against journalists in Mexico. Underpaid and subject to the corruption long encouraged...