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Könyv Toxic Town Peter C. Little

Toxic Town

IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks

Szerző: Peter C. Little
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
14 866 Ft
In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste s...

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Szerző
Peter C. Little
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2014
oldal
264
EAN
9780814770924
ISBN
0814770924
Enbook ID
04932285
Kiadó
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Súly
414
Méretek
154 x 228 x 20

Teljes leírás

In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by carcinogens, Endicott is the subject of one of the nation's largest corporate-state mitigation efforts. Yet despite the efforts of IBM and the U.S. government, Endicott residents remain skeptical that the mitigation systems employed were designed with their best interests at heart. In Toxic Town, Peter C. Little tracks and critically diagnoses the experiences of Endicott residents as they learn to live with high-tech pollution, community transformation, scientific expertise, corporate-state power, and risk mitigation technologies. By weaving together the insights of anthropology, political ecology, disaster studies, and science and technology studies, the book explores questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics of risk and the ironies of technological disaster response in a time when IBM's stated mission is to build a "Smarter Planet." Little critically reflects on IBM's new corporate tagline, arguing for a political ecology of corporate social and environmental responsibility and accountability that places the social and environmental politics of risk mitigation front and center. Ultimately, Little argues that we will need much more than hollow corporate taglines, claims of corporate responsibility, and attempts to mitigate high-tech disasters to truly build a smarter planet.

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