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Advocacy after Bhopal - Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (Paperback, 2nd Ed.) Loot Price: R1,193
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Advocacy after Bhopal - Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (Paperback, 2nd Ed.): Kim Fortun

Advocacy after Bhopal - Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)

Kim Fortun

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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 litigation following the Bhopal disaster 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 meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the gas victims' stories, Fortun's innovative narrative sheds light on the complex intertwined way advocacy works within a global system, calling into question conventional notions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Revealing the hopes and frustrations of advocacy, this moving work also counters the tendency to think of Bhopal as an isolated incident that "can't happen here."

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Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2001
First published: July 2001
Authors: Kim Fortun
Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 3mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 488
Edition: 2nd Ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-25720-4
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena
Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal skills & practice > Advocacy
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LSN: 0-226-25720-7
Barcode: 9780226257204

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