Andy Bruno, Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University Through a foggy bus window I began to make out the town amid the meager taiga landscape. It’d be fitting if the translucent layer of film distorting my view came from the plant’s pollution, but I doubt that was the case. As we rolled past a familiar scene … Continue reading Into a Frozen Inferno: Personal and Historical Trajectories in Monchegorsk
Dr Thom Davies, Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick: @ThomDavies In May 2016 we held the first annual workshop for the European Research Council-funded project ‘Toxic Expertise’. The two day event, funded by the ERC in conjunction with the Global Governance Global Research Priority (Warwick), was a big success and created some really … Continue reading Toxic Expertise Annual Workshop
Dr Alice Mah, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK In November 2015, shortly after the publication of our first issue of Toxic News, I went on my first research trip to China, together with Cynthia Wang. This marked the start of a new journey to look at issues of pollution and health … Continue reading Editorial: From Beijing to Paris
Wilma Subra is an award winning[1] chemist who has dedicated her career to environmental justice. She has worked to protect the environment and the health of citizens for over 40 years. With her home and office in Louisiana, where she grew up, she has many high profile cases along the Petrochemical Corridor (Cancer Alley), right … Continue reading Superfund Sites, the Toxic Release Inventory and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Toxic News Interview with Wilma Subra
India Foster, Project Administrator, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK Background In 2004, Andy McGeechan led a local residents’ campaign to save twelve blocks of flats from demolition in a West Midlands city in the UK. Andy was and still is a resident of the North Coventry area of Hillfields which is located next to … Continue reading Demolitions, Housing, and Environmental Justice: A Toxic News Interview with a Community Activist in Hillfields, Coventry
Dr Thom Davies, Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK @ThomDavies “The single most important challenge to the safety and protection of refugees arises from populist politics and toxic public debates” – Volker Türk, UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection (UN 2015) While conducting research this summer in the so-called ‘new Jungle’ in … Continue reading Toxic Life? The Slow Violence of refugee abandonment
India Foster, Project Administrator, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK “It is universally considered just that each person should obtain that (whether good or evil) which he deserves; and unjust that he should obtain a good, or be made to undergo an evil, which he does not deserve. This is, perhaps, the clearest and most … Continue reading My journey in environmental justice: How – or rather why – I came to work on the Toxic Expertise project…
Dr Alice Mah, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK In some way or another, whether up close, within polluted communities, or at a distance, as global consumers, toxic issues affect all of us. In the age of the Internet, we are constantly bombarded with news. Headlines emerge only to be buried as … Continue reading Toxic News: Editor’s Introduction
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