Nicholas Shapiro

Homesick

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nicholas Shapiro examines the US government s distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781478032441
• ISBN-10: 1478032448
• Artikelnr.: 73743670

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Shapiro is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction: Homesick, Otherwise 1
1. At Home in the Surreal 27
2. From Chemical Fetishes to the Late Industrial Sublime 55
3. Un-knowing Exposure 79
4. Environmental Litigation and the Fantasy of Accountability 99
5. Working the Stopgap 125
6. From Policymaking to Alter-Engineered Worlds 149
Acknowledgments 173
Appendix 1 179
Appendix 2 181
Notes 183
References 199
Index