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Online-Ressource (436 p)
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9780226257204
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The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an ""innovative model"" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground.Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to me
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue: The Times; Introduction Advocacy, Ethnography, and Complex Systems; One Plaintive Response; Two Happening Here; Three Union Carbide, Having a Hand in Things; Four Working Perspectives; Five States of India; Six Situational Particularities; Seven Opposing India; Eight Women's Movements; Nine Anarchism and Its Discontents; Ten Communities Concerned about Corporations; Eleven Green Consulting; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226257181
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226257198
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Advocacy after Bhopal : Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders
Language:
English
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