1932

Abstract

While the proliferation of industrial toxic substances over the past century has had drastic environmental and bodily effects, conventional methods of measuring and mitigating those effects continue to produce uncertainty. The project of living in a toxic world entails ethical, technical, and aesthetic efforts to understand toxicity as a contingent encounter among beings, systems, and things, rather than as a fundamental characteristic of particular substances. Anthropologists do not just observe such encounters; they live and work within them. This review examines recent anthropological research on toxicity, proposing that responses to toxic disaster and occupational exposure, as well as acts of familial, state, or corporate care, are all modes of “toxic worlding.” The review concludes with a summary of recent research in collaborative and engaged anthropology, suggesting that such approaches are essential not so much for purifying or detoxifying the world as for making it otherwise.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-010220-074557
2020-10-21
2024-12-01
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/anthro/49/1/annurev-anthro-010220-074557.html?itemId=/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-010220-074557&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

Literature Cited

  1. Agard-Jones V. 2013. Bodies in the system. Small Axe 17:3182–92
    [Google Scholar]
  2. Ahmann C. 2018. “It's exhausting to create an event out of nothing”: slow violence and the manipulation of time. Cult. Anthropol. 33:1142–71
    [Google Scholar]
  3. Ahmann C. 2019. Waste to energy: garbage prospects and subjunctive politics in late-industrial Baltimore. Am. Ethnol. 46:3328–42
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Ahmed S. 2017. Living a Feminist Life Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Akese G, Little PC. 2018. Electronic waste and the environmental justice challenge in Agbogbloshie. Environ. Justice 11:277–83
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Alaimo S. 2010. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  7. Allen BL. 2003. Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
    [Google Scholar]
  8. Allison A. 2013. Precarious Japan Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  9. Altman RG, Morello-Frosch R, Brody JG, Rudel RA, Brown P, Averick M 2011. Pollution comes home and gets personal: women's experience of household chemical exposure. Contested Illnesses: Citizen, Scientists, and Health Social Movements P Brown, R Morello-Frosch, S Zavestoski 108–22 Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  10. Anand N, Gupta A, Appel H 2018. Temporality, politics, and the promise of infrastructure. The Promise of Infrastructure N Anand, A Gupta, H Appel 1–40 Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  11. Auyero J, Swistun DA. 2009. Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown New York: Oxford Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  12. Banerjee D. 2013. Writing the disaster: substance activism after Bhopal. Contemp. South Asia 21:3230–42
    [Google Scholar]
  13. Barrios R. 2017. What does catastrophe reveal for whom? The anthropology of crises and disasters at the onset of the Anthropocene. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 46:151–66
    [Google Scholar]
  14. Bennett J. 2010. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  15. Bohme SR. 2015. Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  16. Bond D. 2013. Governing disaster: the political life of the environment during the BP oil spill. Cult. Anthropol. 28:4694–715
    [Google Scholar]
  17. Boudia S, Jas N 2014. Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World New York: Berghahn
    [Google Scholar]
  18. Brown K. 2013. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters New York: Oxford Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  19. Brown K. 2019. Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future New York: Norton
    [Google Scholar]
  20. Brown P. 2007. Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement New York: Columbia Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  21. Buell L. 1998. Toxic discourse. Crit. Inq. 24:3639–65
    [Google Scholar]
  22. Bullard RD. 2000. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality Boulder, CO: Westview. , 3rd ed..
    [Google Scholar]
  23. Carson R. 1962. Silent Spring Boston: Houghton Mifflin
    [Google Scholar]
  24. Cepek ML. 2018. Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Oil Fields of Amazonia Austin: Univ. Tex. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  25. Chari S. 2013. Detritus in Durban: polluted environs and the biopolitics of refusal. Imperial Debris A Stoler 131–61 Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  26. Checker M. 2005. Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town New York: NYU Press
    [Google Scholar]
  27. Checker M. 2007. But I know it's true: environmental risk assessment, justice, and anthropology. Hum. Organ. 66:2112–24
    [Google Scholar]
  28. Chen M. 2012. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  29. Choy TK. 2011. Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  30. Cram S. 2016. Living in dose: nuclear work and the politics of permissible exposure. Public Cult 28:3519–39
    [Google Scholar]
  31. Das V. 1995. Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  32. Davis H. 2015. Toxic progeny: the plastisphere and other queer futures. philoSOPHIA 5:2231–50
    [Google Scholar]
  33. Dhillon J, Estes N. 2016. Standing Rock, #NoDAPL, and Mni Wiconi. Fieldsights Dec. 22. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/standing-rock-nodapl-and-mni-wiconi
    [Google Scholar]
  34. Di Chiro G. 2010. Polluted politics? Confronting toxic discourse, sex panic, and eco-normativity. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire C Mortimer-Sandilands, B Erickson 199–230 Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  35. Dietrich A. 2013. The Drug Company Next Door: Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico New York: NYU Press
    [Google Scholar]
  36. Douglas M. 2000. 1966. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo New York: Routledge
    [Google Scholar]
  37. Fennell C. 2015. Theorizing the contemporary: emplacement. Fieldsights Sep. 24. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/emplacement
    [Google Scholar]
  38. Ferry E, Ferry S. 2017. La Batea New York: Red Hook
    [Google Scholar]
  39. Fiske A. 2018. Dirty hands: the toxic politics of denunciation. Soc. Stud. Sci. 48:3389–413
    [Google Scholar]
  40. Fortun K. 2001. Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press
    [Google Scholar]
  41. Fortun K. 2012. Ethnography in late industrialism. Cult. Anthropol. 27:3446–64
    [Google Scholar]
  42. Fortun K, Fortun M. 2005. Scientific imaginaries and ethical plateaus in contemporary U.S. toxicology. Am. Anthropol. 107:143–54
    [Google Scholar]
  43. Fortun K, Fortun M, Bigras E, Saheb T, Costello-Kuehn B et al. 2014. Experimental ethnography online: The Asthma Files. Cult. Stud. 28:4632–42
    [Google Scholar]
  44. Frickel S, Gibbon S, Howard J, Kempner J, Ottinger G et al. 2010. Undone science: charting social movement and civil society challenges to research agenda setting. Sci. Technol. Hum. Values 34:4444–73
    [Google Scholar]
  45. Gaber N. 2019. Mobilizing health metrics for the human right to water in Flint and Detroit, Michigan. Health Hum. Rights 21:1179–89
    [Google Scholar]
  46. Gammeltoft T. 2014. Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  47. Goldstein DM, Hall K. 2015. Mass hysteria in Le Roy, New York: how brain experts materialized truth and outscienced environmental inquiry. Am. Ethnol. 42:4640–57
    [Google Scholar]
  48. Goldstein DM, Stawkowski M. 2015. James V. Neel and Yuri E. Dubrova: Cold War debates and the genetic effects of low-dose radiation. J. Hist. Biol. 48:167–98
    [Google Scholar]
  49. Graeter S. 2017. To revive an abundant life: Catholic science and neoextractivist politics in Peru's Mantaro Valley. Cult. Anthropol. 32:1117–48
    [Google Scholar]
  50. Graeter S. 2020. Infrastructural incorporations: toxic storage, corporate indemnity, and ethical deferral in Peru's neoextractivist era. Am. Anthropol. 122:121–36
    [Google Scholar]
  51. Guthman J. 2011. Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  52. Guthman J. 2019. Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  53. Hamdy SF. 2013. Political challenges to biomedical universalism: kidney failure among Egypt's poor. Med. Anthropol. 32:4374–92
    [Google Scholar]
  54. Harper K. 2005. “Wild capitalism” and “ecocolonialism”: a tale of two rivers. Am. Anthropol. 107:2221–33
    [Google Scholar]
  55. Hecht G. 2012. Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
    [Google Scholar]
  56. Hetherington K. 2013. Beans before the law: knowledge practices, responsibility, and the Paraguayan soy boom. Cult. Anthropol. 28:165–85
    [Google Scholar]
  57. Hoffman D. 2017. Toxicity. Somatosphere Oct. 16. http://somatosphere.net/2017/toxicity.html/
    [Google Scholar]
  58. Hoover E. 2017. The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community Minneapolis: Univ. Minn. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  59. Horton S. 2016. They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality Among U.S. Farmworkers. Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  60. Jacka J. 2018. The anthropology of mining: the social and environmental impacts of resource extraction in the mineral age. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 47:61–77
    [Google Scholar]
  61. Jackson DJ. 2011. Scents of place: the dysplacement of a First Nations community in Canada. Am. Anthropol. 113:4606–18
    [Google Scholar]
  62. Jain SL. 2013. Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  63. Johnston BR 2007. Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War Santa Fe, NM: SAR
    [Google Scholar]
  64. Kelly AH, Koudakossi HN, Moore SJ 2017. Repellents and “new spaces of concern” in global health. Med. Anthropol. 36:5464–78
    [Google Scholar]
  65. Kelly AH, Lezaun J. 2014. Urban mosquitoes, situational publics, and the pursuit of interspecies separation. Am. Ethnol. 41:2368–83
    [Google Scholar]
  66. Kenner A. 2018. Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Minneapolis: Univ. Minn. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  67. Kilshaw S. 2010. Impotent Warriors: Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity New York: Berghahn
    [Google Scholar]
  68. Kirsch S. 2014. Mining Capitalism: The Relationship Between Corporations and Their Critics Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  69. Krupar S. 2013. Hot Spotter's Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste Minneapolis: Univ. Minn. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  70. Kuchinskaya O. 2014. The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge About Radiation Health Effects After Chernobyl Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
    [Google Scholar]
  71. Lamoreaux J. 2016. What if the environment is a person? Lineages of epigenetic science in a toxic China. Cult. Anthropol. 31:2188–214
    [Google Scholar]
  72. Lamoreaux J. 2019. “Swimming in poison”: reimagining endocrine disruption through China's environmental hormones. Cross Curr 30:78–100
    [Google Scholar]
  73. Langston N. 2010. Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  74. Langwick SA. 2017. A politics of habitability: plants, healing, and sovereignty in a toxic world. Cult. Anthropol. 33:3415–43
    [Google Scholar]
  75. Lappé M, Hein R, Landecker H 2019. Environmental politics of reproduction. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 48:133–50
    [Google Scholar]
  76. Li F. 2015. Unearthing Conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  77. Liboiron M. 2016. Redefining pollution and action: the matter of plastics. J. Mater. Cult. 21:187–110
    [Google Scholar]
  78. Liboiron M, Tironi M, Calvillo N 2018. Toxic politics: acting in a permanently polluted world. Soc. Stud. Sci. 48:3331–49
    [Google Scholar]
  79. Little PC. 2014. Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks New York: NYU Press
    [Google Scholar]
  80. Little PC. 2017. Corporate mortality files and late industrial necropolitics. Med. Anthropol. Q. 32:2161–76
    [Google Scholar]
  81. Little PC. 2019. Bodies, toxins, and e-waste labour interventions in Ghana: toward a toxic postcolonial corporality. ? Rev. Antropol. Iberoam. 14:151–71
    [Google Scholar]
  82. Livingston J. 2012. Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  83. Lock M. 2017. Recovering the body. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 46:1–14
    [Google Scholar]
  84. Lyons KM. 2016. Decomposition as life politics: soils, selva, and small farmers under the gun of the U.S.–Colombia war on drugs. Cult. Anthropol. 31:156–81
    [Google Scholar]
  85. Lyons KM. 2018. Chemical warfare in Colombia, evidentiary and senti-actuando practices of justice. Soc. Stud. Sci. 48:3414–37
    [Google Scholar]
  86. MacKendrick N. 2018. Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate Exposures to Everyday Toxics Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  87. MacLeish K, Wool Z. 2018. U.S. military burn pits and the politics of health. Second Spear Aug. 1. http://medanthroquarterly.org/2018/08/01/us-military-burn-pits-and-the-politics-of-health/
    [Google Scholar]
  88. Masco J. 2006. The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post–Cold War New Mexico Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  89. Masco J. 2008. Mutant ecologies: radioactive life in post-Cold War New Mexico. Cult. Anthropol. 19:4517–50
    [Google Scholar]
  90. Masco J. 2017. The crisis in crisis. Curr. Anthropol. 58:Suppl. 15S65–76
    [Google Scholar]
  91. Matz J, Wylie S, Kriesky J 2017. Participatory air monitoring in the midst of uncertainty: residents’ experiences with the Speck sensor. Engag. Sci. Technol. Soc. 3:464–98
    [Google Scholar]
  92. Mbembé A. 2002. African modes of self-writing. Public Cult 14:1239–73
    [Google Scholar]
  93. Montoya T. 2017. Yellow water: rupture and return one year after the Gold King Mine spill. Anthropol. Now 9:391–115
    [Google Scholar]
  94. Moran-Thomas A. 2019. Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  95. Münster D. 2012. Farmers’ suicides and the state in India: conceptual and ethnographic notes from Wayanad, Kerala. Contrib. Indian Sociol. 46:1/2181–208
    [Google Scholar]
  96. Murphy M. 2006. Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  97. Murphy M. 2008. Chemical regimes of living. Environ. Hist. 13:4695–703
    [Google Scholar]
  98. Murphy M. 2013. Distributed reproduction, chemical violence, and latency. Sch. Feminist Online 11:3 https://sfonline.barnard.edu/life-un-ltd-feminism-bioscience-race/distributed-reproduction-chemical-violence-and-latency/
    [Google Scholar]
  99. Murphy M. 2017. Alterlife and decolonial chemical relations. Cult. Anthropol. 32:4494–503
    [Google Scholar]
  100. Nading AM. 2017. Local biologies, leaky things, and the chemical infrastructures of global health. Med. Anthropol. 36:2141–56
    [Google Scholar]
  101. Nash L. 2006. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Disease, Environment, and Knowledge Berkeley: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  102. Nixon R. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  103. Onaga L. 2018. Measuring the particular: the meanings of low-dose radiation experiments in post-1954 Japan. Positions 26:2265–304
    [Google Scholar]
  104. Onaga L, Wu HYJ. 2018. Articulating genba: particularities of exposure and its study in Asia. Positions 26:2197–212
    [Google Scholar]
  105. Oreskes N, Conway EM. 2010. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming London: Bloomsbury
    [Google Scholar]
  106. Ottinger G. 2013. Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges New York: NYU Press
    [Google Scholar]
  107. Packard RM. 2007. The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  108. Pathak G, Nichter M. 2019. The anthropology of plastics: an agenda for local studies of a global matter of concern. Med. Anthropol. Q. 33:3307–26
    [Google Scholar]
  109. Pearson TW. 2017. When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Minneapolis: Univ. Minn. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  110. Pellow DN. 2007. Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
    [Google Scholar]
  111. Pérez R, Handley M, Grieshop J 2010. Savoring the taste of home: the pervasiveness of lead poisoning from ceramic and its implications in transnational care packages. NAPA Bull 34:1105–25
    [Google Scholar]
  112. Petryna A. 2002. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens After Chernobyl Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  113. Petryna A. 2013. The origins of extinction. Limn3 https://limn.it/articles/the-origins-of-extinction/
    [Google Scholar]
  114. Povinelli E. 2016. Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  115. Povinelli E. 2017. Fires, fogs, winds. Cult. Anthropol. 32:4504–13
    [Google Scholar]
  116. Powell DE. 2018. Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  117. Quesada J, Hart LK, Bourgois P 2011. Structural vulnerability and health: Latino migrants in the United States. Med. Anthropol. 30:4339–62
    [Google Scholar]
  118. Raffles H. 2010. Insectopedia New York: Penguin Random House
    [Google Scholar]
  119. Renfrew D. 2018. Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  120. Reno JO. 2016. Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  121. Reno JO. 2020. Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  122. Roberts EFS. 2017. What gets inside: violent entanglements and toxic boundaries in Mexico City. Cult. Anthropol. 32:4592–619
    [Google Scholar]
  123. Roberts EFS, Sanz C. 2018. Bioethnography: a how-to guide for the twenty-first century. Handbook of Genetics and Society M Meloni, J Cromby, D Fitzgerald, S Lloyd 749–75 New York: Palgrave
    [Google Scholar]
  124. Rubaii KJ. 2018. Counterinsurgency and the ethical life of material things in Iraq's Anbar Province PhD Thesis, Univ. Calif Santa Cruz:
    [Google Scholar]
  125. Sawyer S. 2004. Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  126. Sawyer S. 2012. Crude contamination: law, science, and indeterminacy in Ecuador and beyond. Subterranean Estates: Lifeworlds of Oil and Gas H Appel, A Mason, M Watts 126–46 Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  127. Saxton D. 2015. Strawberry fields as extreme environments: the ecobiopolitics of farmworker health. Med. Anthropol. 34:2166–83
    [Google Scholar]
  128. Sellers C, Melling J. 2012. Towards a transnational industrial-hazard history: charting the circulation of workplace dangers, debates, and expertise. Br. J. Hist. Sci. 45:3401–24
    [Google Scholar]
  129. Sethi A. 2017. The life of debt in rural India PhD Thesis, Columbia Univ New York:
    [Google Scholar]
  130. Shapiro N. 2015. Attuning to the chemosphere: domestic formaldehyde, bodily reasoning, and the chemical sublime. Cult. Anthropol 30:3368–93
    [Google Scholar]
  131. Shapiro N, Kirksey E. 2017. Chemo-ethnography: an introduction. Cult. Anthropol. 32:4481–93
    [Google Scholar]
  132. Shapiro N, Zakariya N, Roberts J 2017. A wary alliance: from enumerating the environment to inviting apprehension. Engag. Sci. Technol. Soc. 3:575–602
    [Google Scholar]
  133. Singer M, Baer H. 2009. Killer Commodities: Public Health and the Corporate Production of Harm Lanham, MD: AltaMira
    [Google Scholar]
  134. Stawkowski M. 2016. “I am a radioactive mutant”: emergent biological subjectivities at Kazakhstan's Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. Am. Ethnol. 43:1144–57
    [Google Scholar]
  135. Stengers I. 2005. Introductory notes on an ecology of practices. Cult. Stud. Rev. 11:1183–96
    [Google Scholar]
  136. Sternsdorff-Cisterna N. 2015. Food after Fukushima: risk and scientific citizenship in Japan. Am. Anthropol. 117:3455–67
    [Google Scholar]
  137. Stolz R. 2018. Money and mercury: environmental pollution and the limits of Japanese postwar democracy. Positions 26:2243–64
    [Google Scholar]
  138. Stone GD. 2007. Agricultural de-skilling and the spread of genetically modified cotton in Warangal. Curr. Anthropol. 48:167–103
    [Google Scholar]
  139. Sunder Rajan K. 2016. Pharmocracy Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  140. Tironi M, Rodriguez-Giralt I. 2017. Healing, knowing, enduring: care and politics in damaged worlds. Sociol. Rev. Monogr. 65:289–109
    [Google Scholar]
  141. Todd Z. 2017. Fish, kin, and hope: tending to water violations in amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six Territory. Afterall 43:1102–7
    [Google Scholar]
  142. Tousignant N. 2018. Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  143. Tuck E. 2009. Suspending damage: a letter to communities. Harvard Educ. Rev. 79:3409–27
    [Google Scholar]
  144. Wahlberg A. 2018. Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  145. Walker B. 2010. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan Seattle: Univ. Wash. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  146. Welker M. 2014. Enacting the Corporation: An American Mining Firm in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia Oakland: Univ. Calif. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  147. Widger T. 2015. Suicide in Sri Lanka: The Anthropology of an Epidemic Oxford, UK: Routledge
    [Google Scholar]
  148. Willow A, Wylie S. 2014. Politics, ecology, and the new anthropology of energy: exploring the emerging frontiers of hydraulic fracturing. J. Political Ecol. 21:1226–36
    [Google Scholar]
  149. Worl J. 2019. Mercurial worlds: toxicity, risk, and care in Kenya's artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities PhD Thesis, Univ. Mich Ann Arbor:
    [Google Scholar]
  150. Wylie S. 2018. Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press
    [Google Scholar]
  151. Yusoff K. 2017. Indeterminate subjects, irreducible worlds: two economies of indeterminacy. Body Soc 23:375–101
    [Google Scholar]
/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-010220-074557
Loading
  • Article Type: Review Article
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error