Glyphosate and the Swirl

An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvVincanne Adams

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In Glyphosate and the Swirl Vincanne Adams explores the chemical glyphosate-the active ingredient in Roundup and a pervasive agricultural herbicide-as a predicament of contested science and chemically saturated life. Adams traces the history of glyphosate’s invention and its multiple uses as activists, regulators, scientists, clinicians, consumers, and sick people try to determine its safety and harm. Scientific and political debates over glyphosate’s toxicity are agitated into a swirl-a condition in which certainty is continually contested, divided, and multiplied. This movement replicates the chemical’s movement in soils, foods, bodies, archives, labs, and legislative bodies, settling in some places here and in other places there, its potencies changing and altering what it touches with different scales and kinds of impact. The swirl is both an artifact of academic capitalism, activist tactics, and contested scientific facts and a way to capture the complexity of contemporary life with chemicals.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-01-03
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Antal sidor184
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478019411

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"This book could be used in the disciplines of food studies, anthropology, government, environmental studies, and social justice studies. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." - C.L. Lalonde (Choice) "Adams’ latest book is a beautifully written, provocative foray into re-thinking the ever-swirling sources of, and possible responses to, chemical injury, urging critical scholars of toxicity to shepherd the swirl towards tangible and embodied forms of environmental justice."- Melina Packer (Science as Culture) "Highly recommended for professionals and stakeholders in the agriculture, industry, health, and policy sectors. It fosters a deeper awareness and understanding of the realities behind glyphosate’s use and its broader implications for public health and safety." - Arif Purwanto Kaban (Agriculture and Human Values)