Week 13: Toxicity
Reading and media
- Mostafanezhad, M., 2022. The materiality of air pollution: Urban political ecologies of tourism in Thailand. In Recentering Tourism Geographies in the ‘Asian Century’ (pp. 207-224). Routledge.
- Nguyen, V., 2020. Breathless in Beijing: Aerial Attunements and China’s New Respiratory Publics. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 6, pp.439-461.
- Zhang, A., 2021. From immunity to collaboration: Microbes, waste, and antitoxic politics. Current Anthropology, 62(S24), pp.S298-S310.
- Media: Short film: Sea of Miracles - Nuclear is not the Answer
- Media: Video: Warriors of Qiugang
- Media: Smog Journeys: a short film by Jia Zhangke
Recommended
- Recommended: Dewan, C. and Sibilia, E.A., 2024. Global containments and local leakages: Structural violence and the toxic flows of shipbreaking. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 42(1), pp.80-101.
- Recommended: Tripathy, P. and McFarlane, C., 2022. Perceptions of atmosphere: Air, waste, and narratives of life and work in Mumbai. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 40(4), pp.664-682.