Advocacy after Bhopal: environmentalism, disaster, new global orders
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1. Verfasser: Fortun, Kim (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2001
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-401) and index
Plaintive response -- Happening here -- Union Carbide, having a hand in things -- Working perspectives -- States of India -- Situational particularities -- Opposing India -- Women's movements -- Anarchism and its discontents -- Communities concerned about corporations -- Green consulting
The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground. Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meeting
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