Residues : : Thinking Through Chemical Environments / / Angela N. H. Creager, Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry, Nathalie Jas, Carsten Reinhardt, Jody A. Roberts, Soraya Boudia.

Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
©2022
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Nature, Society, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (146 p.) :; 9 b-w images
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface and Acknowledgments --
Acronyms and Abbreviations --
1. Residue Properties --
2. Legacy --
3. Accretion --
4. Apprehension --
5. Residual Materialism --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index --
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Summary:Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this same segmented approach. Yet, in chemical substances we encounter phenomena that are at once voluminous and miniscule, singular and ubiquitous, regulated yet unruly. Inspired by recent studies of materiality and infrastructures, we introduce “residual materialism” as a framework for attending to the socio-material properties of chemicals and their world-making powers. Tracking residues through time, space, and understanding helps us see how the past has been built into our present chemical environments and future-oriented regulatory systems, why contaminants seem to always evade control, and why the Anthropocene is as inextricably harnessed to the synthesis of carbon into new molecules as it is driven by carbon’s combustion.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781978818057
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754070
9783110753837
9783110766479
DOI:10.36019/9781978818057?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Angela N. H. Creager, Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry, Nathalie Jas, Carsten Reinhardt, Jody A. Roberts, Soraya Boudia.