Reckoning with Harm : : The Toxic Relations of Oil in Amazonia / / Amelia M. Fiske.
An ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity. Reckoning with Harm is a striking ethnographic analysis of the harm resulting from oil extraction. Covering fifty years of settler colonization and industr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023] 2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 20 b&w photos, 4 b&w illustrations, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Transcription
- Oil: A Visual Glossary
- Introduction: Encountering Harm
- Chapter 1. Building a Life on the Aguarico
- Chapter 2. Evidence
- Chapter 3. Bounding Harm
- Chapter 4. Toxic Exposures
- Chapter 5. Touring Toxic Places
- Conclusion. Relations of the Aguarico-4 Well
- Epilogue: Una Masa Dura
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index