Alice Mah

Petrochemical Planet

Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on research from high-level industry meetings, petrochemical plant tours, and polluted communities in the United States, China, Europe, Alice Mah examines the changing nature of the petrochemical industry as it faces the existential threats of climate change and environmental activism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781478020141
• ISBN-10: 1478020148
• Artikelnr.: 67442471

Autorenporträt

Alice Mah is Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of Glasgow and author of Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do about It.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  vii
Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction  1
1. The Petrochemical Game of War  25
2. Enduring Toxic Injustice and Fenceline Mobilizations  53
3. Multiscalar Activism and Petrochemical Proliferation  71
4. The Competing Stakes of the Planetary Petrochemical Crisis  95
5. Petrochemical Degrowth, Decarbonization, and Just Transformations  119
6. Toward an Alternative Planetary Petrochemical Politics  141
Notes  153
Bibliography  185
Index  207