Plastic legacies : pollution, persistence, and politics /

"There is virtually nowhere on Earth today that remains untouched by plastic and ecosystems are evolving to adapt to this new context. While plastics have revolutionized our modern world, new and often unforeseen effects of plastic and its production are continually being discovered. Plastics a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Farrelly, Trisia (Editor ), Taffel, Sy (Editor ), Shaw, Ian C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press, 2021.
Temas:
Plastic scrap.
Plastic scrap > Environmental aspects.
Plastic scrap > Social aspects.
Plastics > Environmental aspects.
Plastics > Social aspects.
Plastics industry and trade > Environmental aspects.
Plastics industry and trade > Social aspects.
Matières plastiques > Déchets.
Matières plastiques > Déchets > Aspect de l'environnement.
Matières plastiques > Déchets > Aspect social.
Matières plastiques > Aspect de l'environnement.
Matières plastiques > Aspect social.
Matières plastiques > Industrie > Aspect de l'environnement.
Matières plastiques > Industrie > Aspect social.
Plastic scrap
Plastic scrap > Environmental aspects
Plastics > Environmental aspects
Plastics industry and trade > Environmental aspects
Plastics industry and trade > Social aspects
Animals
Environmental Conservation & Protection
Environmental policy
Marine Life
Nature
Political science
Plastic scrap > Environmental aspects
Plastics industry and trade > Environmental aspects
Plastics > Environmental aspects
Public Policy
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Our Plastic Inheritance
  • PART I POLLUTION
  • 1 Marine Litter: Are There Solutions to This Global Environmental Problem?
  • 2 Slow Violence: The Erosion of Marine Plastic Debris and of Human Health
  • 3 How Seabirds and Indigenous Science Illustrate the Legacies of Plastics Pollution
  • 4 Dawn of the Plastisphere: An Experiment with Unpredictable Effects
  • PART II PERSISTENCE
  • 5 Plastiglomerate: Plastics, Geology, and the New Materialism of the Anthropocene
  • 6 Dressed in Plastic: The Persistence of Polyester Clothes
  • 7 Caring for the Multiple Cares of Plastics
  • 8 On Becoming a Massively Distributed Thing: Hedgehogs, Plastics, and the Bearable Lightness of Becoming
  • PART III POLITICS
  • 9 Communicative Capitalism, Technological Solutionism, and The Ocean Cleanup
  • 10 Toward Large-Scale Social Change and Plastic Politics: An Anthropological Perspective on the Practices of a Danish Environmental Organization
  • 11 Plastics Talk/Talking Plastics: The Communicative Power of Plasticity
  • 12 Redressing the Faustian Bargains of Plastics Economies
  • Conclusion: Where There's a Will . . . Contesting Our Plastic Inheritance
  • List of Contributors

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