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May 2019
Download full edition PDF Toxic News 15th Edition
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| Editorial- Special Issue: Making the Petrochemical Connection | Alice Mah | 15 | 1 | 15.1 |
| Santa Cruz Verde 2030: A new dawn for Tenerife? | Chris Waite | 15 | 2 | 15.2 |
| Places of decision and flows of power: Disentangling petrochemical corporate networks | Thomas Verbeek | 15 | 3 | 15.3 |
| The Existential Crisis of the Petrochemical Industry and Discourses of Sustainability: Reflections from the 34th World Petrochemical Conference | David Brown | 15 | 4 | 15.4 |
| Petrochemical Landscapes: A European Perspective | Calvin Jepchote | 15 | 5 | 15.5 |
| Book Review: Quando il potere è operaio: Autonomia e soggettività politica a Porto Marghera (1960-1980) | Lorenzo Feltrin | 15 | 6 | 15.6 |
February 2019
Download full edition PDF Toxic News 14th Edition
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| Editorial: Environmental justice and the embodied, lived experiences of toxic pollution | David Brown | 14 | 1 | 14.1 |
| The Toxic Relationship between Fracked Gas Liquids and Plastics | Diane M. Sicotte | 14 | 2 | 14.2 |
| Seattle’s Segregated Riskscape | Troy D. Abel, Jonah White & Stacy Clauson | 14 | 3 | 14.3 |
| Bodies Exposed: Reframing the Geopolitics of Dilution in Canada’s Chemical Valley | Sarah Marie Wiebe, Jen Bagelman & Laurence Butet-Roch | 14 | 4 | 14.4 |
| Tenacious Fumes, Chemical Sensitivity, and the Politics of Relation | Sophia Jaworski | 14 | 5 | 14.5 |
| Contaminated Morals: the Struggle of Industrial Pollution in a Southern Italian City | Angelo Raffaele Ippolito & Bruno Andreas Walther | 14 | 6 | 14.6 |
November 2018
Download full edition PDF Toxic News 13th Edition
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| Editorial: Living with Toxicity in Greater China: Realities and Reactions | Loretta Lou | 13 | 1 | 13.1 |
| Sacrificing and Saving the Environment: The Case of Shanxi | Yu-Rong Joy Liu | 13 | 2 | 13.2 |
| Is Tap Water in China Safe to Drink? A Water Quality Inspector’s Perspectives | Lu Zhijian | 13 | 3 | 13.3 |
| Plastic China: Sorting Plastic, Sorting People | Adam Liebman | 13 | 4 | 13.4 |
| ‘Village Besieged’: An Elegy for Victims and Protest Against Taiwan’s Petrochemical Pollution | Loretta Lou | 13 | 5 | 13.5 |
September 2018
Download full edition PDF Toxic News 12th Edition
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| Editorial: Measuring and monitoring in complex times – the case of air pollution | Dr Thomas Verbeek and Dr Calvin Jephcote | 12 | 1 | 12.1 |
| The elemental ambiguity of PM2.5 | Emma Garnett | 12 | 2 | 12.2 |
| L’air d’un Bruxellois: self-portraits of personal exposure to air pollution | Nicola da Schio | 12 | 3 | 12.3 |
| Challenges of monitoring and developing environmental policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of air pollution and biofuels in Ghana | Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Ayaga A. Bawah & Elvis Kyere Gyeabour | 12 | 4 | 12.4 |
| Post-Industrial structures of Environmental Injustice within Western Europe | Dr Calvin Jephcote | 12 | 5 | 12.5 |
| Decisions for a healthy and just city | Heike Köckler | 12 | 6 | 12.6 |
| Emerging environmental health data sources | Jon Fairburn | 12 | 7 | 12.7 |
May 2018
Download full edition PDF Toxic News 11th Edition
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| Editorial: Toxic Visions – Photography and Pollution | Dr Thom Davies | 11 | 1 | 11.1 |
| Exposing a Chemical Company | Dr Thom Davies | 11 | 2 | 11.2 |
| The Red Forest: Picturing Radiation with Infrared Film | Dr Thom Davies | 11 | 3 | 11.3 |
| Disposable Citizens: viewing Chernobyl through the lens of those live there | Dr Thom Davies | 11 | 4 | 11.4 |
| The derelict afterlives of para-nuclear waste | Dr Becky Alexis-Martin | 11 | 5 | 11.5 |
| Rare Earthenware: photography, pottery, and pollution | Dr Thom Davies | 11 | 6 | 11.6 |
| Graveyard of Giants: the Toxic Afterlives of Ships | Dr Thom Davies | 11 | 7 | 11.7 |
| Treasure: Landscapes of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve | Dr Thom Davies | 11 | 8 | 11.8 |
| Voyage on the planet: contemplating pollution with Chih Chiu | Dr Thom Davies | 11 | 9 | 11.9 |
| Toxic Expertise Annual Workshop 2018 | Dr Loretta Lou | 11 | 10 | 11.10 |
Download full edition PDF Toxic News 10th Edition
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| Editorial – The (In)visibility of Fireworks Pollution | Dr. Loretta Lou | 10 | 1 | 10.1 |
| Translating Toxic Exposure: Taiwan RCA | Paul Jobin, Hsin-hsing Chen, Yi-ping Lin | 10 | 2 | 10.2 |
| The Chinese Government Should Support Small Scale Agriculture for a Green China | Rowan Alcock | 10 | 3 | 10.3 |
| Revisiting the Air Pollution Crisis in China – a lesson on toxicity, sociality and humanity | Fangfang Li | 10 | 4 | 10.4 |
November 2017
Download full edition PDF Toxic News 9th Edition
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| Editorial: Pollution and Translation | Alice Mah | 9 | 1 | 9:1 |
| Toxic Geographies: chemical plants, plantations, and plants that will not grow | Thom Davies | 9 | 2 | 9:2 |
| For Love of the Place: Emotions and Identities in Conflicts over Environmental Risks from Mining in Minnesota | Erik Kojola | 9 | 3 | 9:3 |
| The environmental impacts of transportation infrastructure: Towards a new relationship between government and citizens | Thomas Verbeek | 9 | 4 | 9:4 |
| 從基礎設施實驗中學到的課題 | Gwen Ottinger, Chia-Liang Shih, Wen-Ling Tu | 9 | 5 | 9:5 |
August 2017
Download Full edition PDF August 2017: Eighth Edition
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| Editorial: Challenges and the Opportunities to Combat Climate Change | Cynthia Wang | 8 | 1 | 8:1 |
| An Uphill Battle to Hold High-tech Corporations Accountable: Lessons Learned from the Siaoli River Disputes in Taiwan | Wen-Ling Tu | 8 | 2 | 8:2 |
| The Elusive Search for Environmental Justice: What We Can Learn from the Efforts of Indigenous Plaintiffs to Hold Chevron Accountable for Its Destructive Legacy in Ecuador | David McRobert, Jordan Shay and Julian Tennent-Riddell | 8 | 3 | 8:3 |
| Whose Carbon Footprint Matters? | Matthew T Huber | 8 | 4 | 8:4 |
| China’s E-Waste: Formal, Informal or Co-exist of Both? | Liwen Chen | 8 | 5 | 8:5 |
May 2017
Download Full edition PDF May 2017: Seventh Edition
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| Editorial: The Scales of Environmental Justice | Alice Mah | 7 | 1 | 7:1 |
| Lessons Learned from an Experiment in Infrastructuring | Gwen Ottinger | 7 | 2 | 7:2 |
| A promenade of human spaces in the ‘land of the tigers’: experiences from the Indian Sundarban | Amrita Sen | 7 | 3 | 7:3 |
| Translations of São Paulo’s Visual Pollution | Marina Da Silva | 7 | 4 | 7:4 |
| ‘Citizen Science, Pollution and Environmental Justice’: the 2017 Toxic Expertise annual workshop | Thom Davies | 7 | 5 | 7:5 |
February 2017
Download Full Edition PDF February 2017: Sixth Edition
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| Editorial: Toxic Pens and Politics | Thom Davies | 6 | 1 | 6:1 |
| Flatlining: Exploring hidden toxic landscapes and the embodiment of contamination at Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, USA | Stephanie Malin and Becky Alexis-Martin | 6 | 2 | 6:2 |
| To stand opposite the government, but not against it: Green Xiaoxiang and environmental participation in Hunan Province, China | Yuanni Wang | 6 | 3 | 6:3 |
| What is the real toxicity within Redcar’s society? Old-fashioned pollution or the growth of Globalisation | David Judge | 6 | 4 | 6:4 |
| The Atomic Anthropocene: a nuclear roundup of 2016 | Becky Alexis-Martin, Stephanie Malin, Thom Davies | 6 | 5 | 6:5 |
| Lyonsgate: a local perspective on pursuing environmental justice | Rich Copland | 6 | 6 | 6:6 |
| Encountering the kiln: visual field notes from an incinerator | Angeliki Balayannis | 6 | 7 | 6:7 |
November 2016
Download Full Edition PDF November 2016: Fifth Edition
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| Editorial: Toxic Subjectivities | Dr Alice Mah | 5 | 1 | 5:1 |
| Heroic Endurance Under the Smoke: Ethnographic Notes from an Industrial Town in Serbia | Dr Deana Jovanović | 5 | 2 | 5:2 |
| Temporary Refuge from Invisible Threats: Outdoor Evacuation Retreats for Children from Fukushima | Elicia Cousins | 5 | 3 | 5:3 |
| On Electronic Pyropolitics and Pure Earth Friction in Agbogbloshie | Dr Peter C. Little | 5 | 4 | 5:4 |
| PX Events from the Perspective of Social Constructivism’ | Professor Zhang Hubiao | 5 | 5 | 5:5 |
| Toxic Expertise Public Engagement Event | Dr Thom Davies | 5 | 6 | 5:6 |
| ‘‘Dis Da Fi Wee?”: Oil, Conservation and Development in Belize | Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins | 5 | 7 | 5:7 |
August 2016
Download Full Edition PDF August 2016: Fourth Edition
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| Editorial: The Unbearable Toxic Cost | Cynthia Wang | 4 | 1 | 4:1 |
| Coal Mining: Ecological and Environmental Disasters in China | Zhang Yulin | 4 | 2 | 4:2 |
| Lead, Politics, and Community: Notes from La Oroya, Peru | Paula Neumann | 4 | 3 | 4:3 |
| Into a Frozen Inferno: Personal and Historical Trajectories in Monchegorsk | Andy Bruno | 4 | 4 | 4:4 |
| Toxic Canals | Simona Grano | 4 | 5 | 4:5 |
| Climate Change, Eco-Labelling, Corporate and Consumer Responsibility | India Holme | 4 | 6 | 4:6 |
| Toxic E-Waste, Oriented Science | Yvan Schulz | 4 | 7 | 4:7 |
| Grapple Slings and Moonshine: Conversations with the men who tested atomic weapons on Christmas Island | Becky Alexis-Martin | 4 | 8 | 4:8 |
June 2016
Download PDF – Toxic Expertise: Annual Workshop
May 2016: 3rd Edition
Download Full Edition PDF MAY 2016: 3rd Edition
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Editorial: Post Atomic Thoughts |
Thom Davies |
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Field Notes from a Nuclear Nerd |
Gabrielle Hecht |
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On the Consequences of Chernobyl |
Olga Kuchinskaya |
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Fukushima and the Right NOT to Return: Nuclear Displacement in a System for “Hometown Recovery” |
Liz Maly |
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The ‘uncanny’ in Fukushima’s nuclear aftermath: anxiety-provoking attachment to home |
Yohei Koyama |
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Chernobyl and Stalker: ‘Splinters of the Soviet Empire’ |
Nick Rush-Cooper |
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Poetry from Chernobyl |
Sarah Philips |
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Notes from Slavutych: the last nuclear meltdown |
Nathaniel Ray Pickett |
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Nuclear power plant expansion and growth in China |
Nam young Kim |
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3:9 |
February 2016
Download Full Edition PDF FEB 2016: 2nd edition
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Editorial: From Beijing to Paris |
Alice Mah |
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Superfund Sites, the Toxic Release Inventory and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Toxic News Interview with Wilma Subra |
India Holme |
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2:2 |
Demolitions, Housing, and Environmental Justice: A Toxic News Interview with a Community Activist in Hillfields, Coventry |
India Holme |
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Mapping the Toxic Remnants of War |
Doug Weir |
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2:4 |
“We want to Know what we’re Breathing”: Cement Factories and Contested Environmental Illness in Minas, Uruguay |
Daniel Renfrew |
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2:5 |
The Petrochemical Complex as a Unit of Reference in Considering Companies’ Relationships with the Local Community |
Miguel Angel Lopez-Navarro |
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Breathless in the Toxic Air |
Cynthia Wang |
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2:7 |
November 2015
Download Full Edition PDF NOV 2015: 1st edition
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Toxic News: Editors Introduction |
Alice Mah |
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The Berdichev Leather Factory in the Wake of the Chernobyl Accident |
Kate Brown |
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2 |
1:2 |
U.S. Oil Refineries Required to Monitor Ambient Air Toxics: A victory, with limits, for neighbouring communities |
Gwen Ottinger |
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Toxic Life? The Slow Violence of refugee abandonment |
Thom Davies |
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1:4 |
A Reflection on the Tianjin Explosions |
Cynthia Wang |
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1:5 |
Toxic Struggle and Corporate Paradox in a High-Tech Industrial Birthplace |
Peter C. Little |
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1:6 |
My journey in environmental justice: How – or rather why – I came to work on the Toxic Expertise project… |
India Foster |
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