Small Matter of Suing Chevron

Suzana Sawyer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, author of Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of The Politics of Resource Extraction: Indigenous Peoples, Multinational Corporations, and the State.

• Time LineAcknowledgmentsFraudOpening: Crude's Valence of TruthsI. Dissociating BondsHearing1. Chemical Agency: Of Hydrocarbons and ToxicityInspection2. Exposure's Orbitals: Of Epidemiology and CalculationDeathII. Spectral RadicalsCatch3. Alchemical Deals: Of Contracts and Their SeepageClandestine4. Radical Inspections: Of Sensorium as Toxic PropositionKuankuanIII. Delocalized StabilitiesCEO5. Plurivalent Rendering: Of Prehension Becoming PrecautionNever6. Bonding Veredictum: Of Corporate Capacity and TechniqueTetheredDerisionMetamorphic Reprise: Valence in the MixtAmisachoNotesReferencesIndex

"A monumental book. . . . An innovative study at the interface of law, health, and the environment, The Small Matter of Suing Chevron will appeal to anthropologists of all stripes, as well as legal scholars, epidemiologists, and those working in the environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and Latin American contexts. As global toxics threaten to resign us all to irredeemable loss, Sawyer’s masterful ethnography demonstrates how it is still both possible and necessary to take a stand against corporate power and judicial imperialism." - Lindsay Ofrias (NACLA) "This book is a valuable addition to work at the critical intersection of law and environmental studies, and essential reading for scholars concerned with energy politics in Latin America. It is best suited for upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate seminars." - Stuart Kirsch (American Ethnologist)