Plastic legacies : : pollution, persistence, and politics / / Trisia Farrelly, Sy Taffel, Ian C. Shaw, editors.
"There is virtually nowhere on Earth today that remains untouched by plastic and ecosystems are evolving to adapt to this new context. While plastics have revolutionized our modern world, new and often unforeseen effects of plastic and its production are continually being discovered. Plastics a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 276 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Our Plastic Inheritance
- PART I POLLUTION
- 1 Marine Litter: Are There Solutions to This Global Environmental Problem?
- 2 Slow Violence: The Erosion of Marine Plastic Debris and of Human Health
- 3 How Seabirds and Indigenous Science Illustrate the Legacies of Plastics Pollution
- 4 Dawn of the Plastisphere: An Experiment with Unpredictable Effects
- PART II PERSISTENCE
- 5 Plastiglomerate: Plastics, Geology, and the New Materialism of the Anthropocene 6 Dressed in Plastic: The Persistence of Polyester Clothes
- 7 Caring for the Multiple Cares of Plastics
- 8 On Becoming a Massively Distributed Thing: Hedgehogs, Plastics, and the Bearable Lightness of Becoming
- PART III POLITICS
- 9 Communicative Capitalism, Technological Solutionism, and The Ocean Cleanup
- 10 Toward Large-Scale Social Change and Plastic Politics: An Anthropological Perspective on the Practices of a Danish Environmental Organization
- 11 Plastics Talk/Talking Plastics: The Communicative Power of Plasticity
- 12 Redressing the Faustian Bargains of Plastics Economies Conclusion: Where There's a Will ... Contesting Our Plastic Inheritance
- List of Contributors.