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WEBPetrochemical futures and the question of hope. Alice Mah, University of Warwick Public consciousness of toxic pollution and environmental injustice has changed a great deal since Toxic News was first published in November 2015.
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WEBToxic News online magazine is a forum for discussions about toxics in everyday life. We aim to bring together a wide range of stories, cases, and perspectives about toxics, from researchers, activists, writers, and artists.
‘Critical’ Minerals and the Politics of Refusal – Toxic News
WEBApr 30, 2021 — A quiet struggle has been playing out in Ontario’s far north as a wave of Indigenous cultural and political resurgence collides with a renewed push to extend the extractive frontier into the vast, swampy boreal forest.
The Global Petrochemical Map: Drawing the Political ... - Toxic News
WEBAug 29, 2019 — In fact, the siting of the most toxic petrochemical plants in the vicinities of minority and low-income communities or the deployment of extremely repressive employment practices in countries where labour is weak can only be understood through the prism of power relations embedded in space.
Past issues – Toxic News
WEBDemolitions, Housing, and Environmental Justice: A Toxic News Interview with a Community Activist in Hillfields, Coventry.
PX Events from the Perspective of Social Constructivism - Toxic News
WEBNov 8, 2016 — ZHANG Hubiao, Associate Professor, Sociology Department of Hohai University, China In recent years, a series of PX (paraxylene) events have occurred in China. Public concern in China over PX first started with the mass protests in the city of Xiamen in Fujian province, over a planned paraxylene plant. The …
In search of environmental justice and possible futures for the ...
WEBNov 17, 2020 — We analyzed how the many senses and meanings around pollution, toxicity, harm to health and environmental impact given to Flammable by several powerful actors performed as a “labor of confusion” linked to the social production of toxic uncertainty, deceit and denial.
Translating Toxic Exposure: Taiwan RCA – Toxic News
WEBFeb 1, 2018 — The Court found four defendant companies liable for workers’ impaired health and emotional distress caused by exposure to dozens of chemical toxicants while working at the factories of RCA Taiwan, which produced televisions sets …
Editorial: Environmental Justice in the Global South ... - Toxic News
WEBAug 29, 2019 — From interdisciplinary perspectives and through geographic case studies, the articles in this issue of Toxic News bring to light environmental justice struggles and the multiple forms of violence connected to environmental crises …
A Reflection on the Tianjin Explosions – Toxic News
WEBMay 28, 2019 — The exploded Ruihai Warehouse, storing thousands tons of hazardous goods, including 700 tons sodium cyanide, a highly toxic chemical substance, is only 600 metres away from its nearest residential area.