Toxic Town : : IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks / / Peter C. Little.
Shows the risks of high-tech pollution through a study of an IBM plant's effects on a New York townIn 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 o...
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Little, Peter C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Toxic Town : IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks / Peter C. Little. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Down in Big Blue’s Toxic Plume in Upstate New York -- 2. The New Mitigation Landscape -- 3. From Shoes to Computers to Vapor Mitigation Systems -- 4. Living the Tangle of Risk, Deindustrialization, and Community Transformation -- 5. Post-Mitigation Skepticism and Frustration -- 6. Grassroots Action and Conflicted Environmental Justice -- 7. Citizens, Experts, and Emerging Vapor Intrusion Science and Policy -- 8. Accounting for the Paradox of IBM’s “Smarter Planet” -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Shows the risks of high-tech pollution through a study of an IBM plant's effects on a New York townIn 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Computer industry Environmental aspects New York (State) Endicott. Computer industry Waste disposal Environmental aspects New York (State) Endicott. Hazardous waste site remediation New York (State) Endicott. Hazardous waste sites New York (State) Endicott. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110728996 print 9780814760697 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814760697.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814764510 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814764510/original |
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