Toxic heritage : : legacies, futures, and environmental justice / / edited by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid and Sarah May.

• Superior document: Key issues in cultural heritage
• TeilnehmendeR: Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth,; May, Sarah (Archaeologist),
• Place / Publishing House: Milton Park, Oxon : : Routledge,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Key issues in cultural heritage.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (385 pages)

"Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue. Bringing together case studies, visual essays and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume pro...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword
• References
• Series General Co-Editors' Foreword
• Toxic Heritage: An Introduction
• Premise and Genesis
• Themes
• Organization and Format
• References
• Section 1. Introduction: Framing Toxicity
• References
• 1. Toxic legacies of slickens in California: a mobile heritage of hydraulic mining debris
• Introduction: critical pedagogies of the toxic
• Slickens
• Making visible
• Looking forward
• References
• Visual essay 1. Extraction old and new: Toxic legacies of mining the desert in southwestern Africa
• Roots and routes of extraction
• Ilmenite
• Diamonds
• Copper
• Zinc
• Acid and Arsenic
• Uranium
• Future mining
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Bibliography (all URLs last accessed 17 July 2022)
• 2. Of blaes and bings: the (non)toxic heritage of the West Lothian oil shale industry
• Toxic language
• Geosocialities
• Blaes and bings
• Emergence
• Transformation
• Monumentality
• Revaluation
• Reimagination
• Discussion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• 3. When Toxic Heritage is Forever: Confronting PFAS Contamination and Toxicity as Lived Experience
• Wildest Hellcat
• Lost Soles
• Black Plumes
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• 4. Plasticity and Time: Using the Stress-Strain Curve as a Framework for Investigating the Wicked Problems of Marine Pollution and Climate Change
• Introduction
• The 'Wicked Problem' of Plastic Pollution
• The Archaeology of Plastics
• The Stress-Strain Curve
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Section 2. Introduction: The Politics of Toxic Heritage
• 5. Heritage-led Regeneration and the Sanitisation of Memory in the Lower Swansea Valley
• Introduction
• Chronology of post-industrial Swansea
• Politics of heritage projects
• Heritage, disaster, decontamination.
• Bibliography
• Case Study 1. Ghost Wrecks of the Anthropocene: An Enduring Toxic Legacy of the Pacific War
• Bibliography
• 6. Military Legacies and Indigenous Heritage in Canada's Newest National Park Reserve
• Introduction
• Background
• Colonialism and the Military
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• Note
• Works Cited
• Case study 2. Trash Fires as Toxic Heritage in Palestine
• How can the term "toxic heritage" help us understand trash fires on occupied territory?
• References
• 7. Politics of Mining: Toxic Heritage in the Atacama Desert
• Introduction
• Politics of Toxic Heritage
• Toxic Mining Heritages: Between Effects and Affection
• Copper
• Lithium
• Conclusions: After Mining?
• Notes
• References
• Case study 3. Sticky, Stinky, Squalid: The Toxic Leachate of Households' Waste in an Area of Urban Decay in Tehran (Iran)
• Areas of Urban Decay in a Crowded City: Tehran
• Waste Management in Historical Areas of Urban Decay
• Sticky, Stinky, and ... Heritage
• References
• 8. Toxic Landmarking and Technoprecarious Heritage in Ghana
• Introduction
• Brief History of the Agbogbloshie Area
• Landmarking Agbogbloshie: Remains of Toxic Resettlement
• Landmarking Agbogbloshie: Creative Neoliberal Installments
• Conclusion
• References
• Section 3. Introduction: Affected Communities, Activism, and Agency
• 9. Reluctant Returns: Repatriating a Poisoned Past
• Understanding the Problem: A History of Toxic Treatments
• With Dignity and Respect
• A Homecoming Deferred
• Damned If You Do
• Why Did You Give Them Back?
• Giving Voice to Bear
• Identify and Isolate
• A Global Problem
• Colonisation's Painful Legacy
• Moving Forward: Collaboration is Key
• Notes
• Bibliography.
• Case study 4. Public Memory of Toxic Displacement: Heavy Metal Contamination and Superfund Remediation in Federally Assisted Housing Communities
• References
• Visual Essay 2. Translating and transforming toxicity: Moving between ethnography and graphic art
• 10. Preservation by Demolition: Toxic Heritage in Contemporary China
• Resistance to relocation
• Bargaining with toxic heritage
• Preservation by demolition: Destroying and remaking toxic heritage
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Bibliography
• 11. Unwanted Legacy and Memory of the Milieu: Toxic Materials, Remediation, Habituation (Estarreja, Portugal)
• Introduction - Damaged World
• Between Land and Water, the Place is Magnificent
• Among Optimism and Utopia
• The Pessimistic View
• Unwanted Legacy in Estarreja
• A Logical Continuum of Heritage Studies
• Toxic Materials
• The Materiality of Toxic Substances
• Remediation and Memory of the Milieu
• Legacy versus Heritage
• Recovery of a Contaminated Ditch
• A Border Case
• Habituation and Activatable Memory
• The City's Image
• The Worrying Comes from Others
• A Kind of Balance
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• 12. Environmental and Embodied Agro-Toxic Heritage in Rural Uruguay: From Recognition to Transition to Sustainability Among Dairy Farmers
• Introduction
• Toxic Heritage and the Search for Alternatives to the Conventional Dairy Production Model
• Final remarks
• References
• Section 4. Introduction: Narratives of Toxic Heritage
• 13. Dirty Laundry: The Toxic Heritage of Dry Cleaning in Indianapolis, Indiana
• Introduction
• A Brief History of Dry Cleaning
• Narratives of Dry-Cleaning Heritage in Indianapolis
• Activist Voices: Archives, Journalism, and Participatory Heritage
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography.
• Case study 5. When Cleaning up the Battlefields from When Times of War have Polluted Soils in Times of Peace: A Case Study of a Silent but Visible Toxic Legacy from the Great War
• Introduction
• Post-Conflict War Waste
• The Case of the Forest of Spincourt
• Conclusion. The Silent Legacy of the Great War
• Bibliography
• 14. Toxic City: Industrial Residues, the Body and Community Activism as Heritage Practice in Glasgow
• Glasgow: Industrial Legacies, Toxicity and the Limits of Regulation
• Chemical Chernobyl": Environmental Injustice, Activism and the Glasgow Chemical Industry
• Concluding Thoughts: Narrating, Curating and Memorialising a Toxic City
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Case study 6. Rubber as (toxic) heritage: Amazonian Knowledge and the rubber Industry
• Introduction to natural rubber
• Rubber heritage in the Amazon
• References
• Case study 7. Three memory frameworks on Chernobyl
• References
• 15. The Toxic Anthracite = Toxic Heritage
• Introduction
• Background
• Nostalgia in a Toxic Environment
• Conclusion
• References
• Section 5. Introduction: Approaches and Interventions
• 16. Environmental Justice Tours: Transformative Narratives of Struggle, Solidarity, and Activism
• Introduction
• History of Ironbound Community Corporation (ICC) and Ironbound, Newark, NJ
• History &amp
• Evolution of EJ Tours at ICC: Building Solidarity and Organizing
• Evolution of EJ Tours at ICC: Audiences and Movement Goals
• We Speak for Ourselves: Reclaiming Spaces of Resistance and Reconstituting Possibilities
• EJ Tours as Movement Tools for Making Demands for Accountability and Action
• Conclusion - EJ Tours as Portals to Environmental Justice Futures
• Bibliography
• Visual Essay 3. Getting the Lead Out, One Community at a Time
• References.
• Case study 8. Climate Museum UK: Practices in Response to the Traumasphere
• Notes
• References
• 17. Toxic Heritage and Reparations: Activating Memory for Environmental and Climate Justice
• Introduction
• Climate as a Problem of History and Memory
• Applying EJ Principles to Heritage Work: Participatory Public Memory for Climate Justice
• Newark
• New Orleans
• Puerto Rico
• Conclusion
• References
• Case study 9. From Leftovers To Takeover: Latent Insurgency Amidst The System's Remnants
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Visual Essay 4. Taking Care of Nuclear Waste
• Introduction
• From existential risk to global climate action
• The art of forgetting
• Taking a people-centred approach
• Uncertainty as an opportunity for care
• Toxicity of cultural heritage
• Acknowledgements
• References
• 18. Toxic and Wasted: Artists Thinking About How to Engage with Material Futures
• Planning for Nuclear Waste Repositories: Intended and Unintended Monuments
• Art, Waste, and Heritage: Land Art and Industrial Landscapes
• Reclaiming Landscape: Indigenous Artists
• Remaining Connected: From Marking to Living with Waste
• Art and Toxic Memories
• Nothing is Wasted
• Everything is Toxic
• Heritage is Everything
• References
• Conclusion: Why toxic heritage matters
• References
• Index.