Toxic Archipelago

Author : Brett L. Walker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295803012

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Toxic Archipelago by Brett L. Walker Pdf

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them as well. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies. Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations; poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents; and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos. This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years -- and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107126978

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Toxic Histories by David Arnold Pdf

An analysis of the challenge that India's poison culture posed for colonial rule and toxicology's creation of a public role for science.

Author : Mark Wheelis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674016998

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Deadly Cultures by Mark Wheelis Pdf

Deadly Cultures offers an historical analysis of biological weapons since 1945 and addresses three central issues: why states have continued or begun programs for acquiring biological weapons, why states have terminated such programs, and how states have demonstrated that they have truly terminated their biological weapons programs.

Author : Sharad S. Chauhan
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biological weapons
ISBN : 8176487325

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Biological Weapons by Sharad S. Chauhan Pdf

Aims To Sensitize The Public Regarding The Spectra Fo Biological Weapons And Highlights The Fact That Biological Weapons Could Seriously Pose A Threat To Inernational Security Of In The Hands Of Terorists And Unethical States.

Author : Simon Avenell
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780824874384

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Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement by Simon Avenell Pdf

What motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? How are activists changed and movements transformed when they reach out to others a world away? This adept study addresses these questions by tying together local, national, regional, and global historical narratives surrounding the contemporary Japanese environmental movement. Spanning the era of Japanese industrial pollution in the 1960s and the more recent rise of movements addressing global environmental problems, it shows how Japanese activists influenced approaches to environmentalism and industrial pollution in the Asia-Pacific region, North America, and Europe, as well as landmark United Nations conferences in 1972 and 1992. Japan’s experiences with diseases caused by industrial pollution produced a potent “environmental injustice paradigm” that fueled domestic protest and became the motivation for Japanese groups’ activism abroad. From the late 1960s onward Japanese activists organized transnational movements addressing mercury contamination in Europe and North America, industrial pollution throughout East Asia, radioactive waste disposal in the Pacific, and global climate change. In all cases, they advocated strongly for the rights of pollution victims and people living in marginalized communities and nations—a position that often put them at odds with those advocating for the global environment over local or national rights. Transnational involvement profoundly challenged Japanese groups’ understanding of and approach to activism. Numerous case studies demonstrate how border-crossing efforts undermined deeply engrained notions of victimhood in the domestic movement and nurtured a more self-reflexive and multidimensional approach to environmental problems and social activism. Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement will appeal to scholars and students interested in the development of civil society, social movements, and environmentalism in contemporary Japan; grassroots inter-Asian connections in the postwar period; and the ways Asian countries and their citizens have shaped and been influenced by global issues like environmentalism. An electronic version of this book is freely available thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched, a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open-access version of this book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which means that the work may be freely downloaded and shared for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. Derivative works and commercial uses require permission from the publisher.

Author : Susan Wright
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0742524698

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Biological Warfare and Disarmament by Susan Wright Pdf

This book proposes fresh approaches and concrete proposals to overcome one of the most intractable security problems of the twenty-first century. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Timothy J. LeCain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107134171

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The Matter of History by Timothy J. LeCain Pdf

The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.

Author : Nathalie Jas,Soraya Boudia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317319696

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Toxicants, Health and Regulation since 1945 by Nathalie Jas,Soraya Boudia Pdf

The number of substances potentially dangerous to our health and environment is constantly increasing. The papers in this volume examine the concurrent rise of pollutants and the regulations designed to police their use.

Author : Ian Jared Miller,Julia Adeney Thomas,Brett L. Walker
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824838775

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Japan at Nature's Edge by Ian Jared Miller,Julia Adeney Thomas,Brett L. Walker Pdf

Japan at Nature’s Edge is a timely collection of essays that explores the relationship between Japan’s history, culture, and physical environment. It greatly expands the focus of previous work on Japanese modernization by examining Japan’s role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries. The immediacy of Earth’s environmental crisis, a predicament highlighted by Japan’s March 2011 disaster, brings a sense of urgency to the study of Japan and its global connections. The work is an environmental history in the broadest sense of the term because it contains writing by environmental anthropologists, a legendary Japanese economist, and scholars of Japanese literature and culture. The editors have brought together an unparalleled assemblage of some of the finest scholars in the field who, rather than treat it in isolation or as a unique cultural community, seek to connect Japan to global environmental currents such as whaling, world fisheries, mountaineering and science, mining and industrial pollution, and relations with nonhuman animals. The contributors assert the importance of the environment in understanding Japan’s history and propose a new balance between nature and culture, one weighted much more heavily on the side of natural legacies. This approach does not discount culture. Instead, it suggests that the Japanese experience of nature, like that of all human beings, is a complex and intimate negotiation between the physical and cultural worlds. Contributors: Daniel P. Aldrich, Jakobina Arch, Andrew Bernstein, Philip C. Brown, Timothy S. George, Jeffrey E. Hanes, David L. Howell, Federico Marcon, Christine L. Marran, Ian Jared Miller, Micah Muscolino, Ken’ichi Miyamoto, Sara B. Pritchard, Julia Adeney Thomas, Karen Thornber, William M. Tsutsui, Brett L. Walker, Takehiro Watanabe.

Author : Catalina M de Onís
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520380622

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Energy Islands by Catalina M de Onís Pdf

"Weaving together historical and ethnographic research, Catalina M. de Onâis challenges the master narratives of Puerto Rico as a tourist destination and site of 'natural' disasters. She demonstrates how fossil-fuel economies are inextricably entwined with colonial practices and policies and how local community groups in Puerto Rico have struggled against energy coloniality and energy privilege to mobilize and transform power from the ground up. This work decenters continental contexts and deconstructs damaging hierarchies that devalue and exploit disenfranchised rural, coastal communities"--

Author : Christine M. E. Guth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520382497

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Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan by Christine M. E. Guth Pdf

Articles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their facture was a matter of serious concern among makers and consumers alike. In this innovative study, Christine M. E. Guth offers a holistic framework for appreciating the crafts produced in the city and countryside, by celebrity and unknown makers, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Her study throws into relief the confluence of often overlooked forces that contributed to Japan’s diverse, dynamic, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture. By bringing into dialogue key issues such as natural resources and their management, media representations, gender and workshop organization, embodied knowledge, and innovation, she invites readers to think about Japanese crafts as emerging from cooperative yet competitive expressive environments involving both human and nonhuman forces. A focus on the material, sociological, physiological, and technical aspects of making practices adds to our understanding of early modern crafts by revealing underlying patterns of thought and action within the wider culture of the times.

Author : Ernst Homburg,Elisabeth Vaupel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789203202

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Hazardous Chemicals by Ernst Homburg,Elisabeth Vaupel Pdf

Although poisonous substances have been a hazard for the whole of human history, it is only with the development and large-scale production of new chemical substances over the last two centuries that toxic, manmade pollutants have become such a varied and widespread danger. Covering a host of both notorious and little-known chemicals, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted. Each study situates chemical hazards in a long-term and transnational framework and demonstrates the importance of considering both the natural and the social contexts in which their histories have unfolded.

Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190673482

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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History by Andrew C. Isenberg Pdf

This book explores the methodology of environmental history, with an emphasis on the field's interaction with other historiographies such as consumerism, borderlands, and gender. It examines the problem of environmental context, specifically the problem and perception of environmental determinism, by focusing on climate, disease, fauna, and regional environments. It also considers the changing understanding of scientific knowledge.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Public health
ISBN : MINN:30000010694812

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Public Health Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christy Tidwell,Carter Soles
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271090436

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Fear and Nature by Christy Tidwell,Carter Soles Pdf

Ecohorror represents human fears about the natural world—killer plants and animals, catastrophic weather events, and disquieting encounters with the nonhuman. Its portrayals of animals, the environment, and even scientists build on popular conceptions of zoology, ecology, and the scientific process. As such, ecohorror is a genre uniquely situated to address life, art, and the dangers of scientific knowledge in the Anthropocene. Featuring new readings of the genre, Fear and Nature brings ecohorror texts and theories into conversation with other critical discourses. The chapters cover a variety of media forms, from literature and short fiction to manga, poetry, television, and film. The chronological range is equally varied, beginning in the nineteenth century with the work of Edgar Allan Poe and finishing in the twenty-first with Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro. This range highlights the significance of ecohorror as a mode. In their analyses, the contributors make explicit connections across chapters, question the limits of the genre, and address the ways in which our fears about nature intersect with those we hold about the racial, animal, and bodily “other.” A foundational text, this volume will appeal to specialists in horror studies, Gothic studies, the environmental humanities, and ecocriticism. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Kristen Angierski, Bridgitte Barclay, Marisol Cortez, Chelsea Davis, Joseph K. Heumann, Dawn Keetley, Ashley Kniss, Robin L. Murray, Brittany R. Roberts, Sharon Sharp, and Keri Stevenson.