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