An interdisciplinary environmental humanities volume that explores
human-environment relationships on our permanently polluted planet.
While toxicity and pollution are ever present in modern daily life,
politicians, juridical systems, media outlets, scholars, and the
public alike show great difficulty in detecting, defining,
monitoring, or generally coming to terms with them. This volume's
contributors argue that the source of this difficulty lies in the
struggle to make sense of the intersecting temporal and spatial
scales working on the human and more-than-human body, while
continuing to acknowledge race, class, and gender in terms of
global environmental justice and social inequality. The term toxic
timescapes refers to this intricate intersectionality of time,
space, and bodies in relation to toxic exposure. As a tool of
analysis, it unpacks linear understandings of time and explores how
harmful substances permeate temporal and physical space as both
event and process. It equips scholars with new ways of creating
data and conceptualizing the past, present, and future presence and
possible effects of harmful substances and provides a theoretical
framework for new environmental narratives. To think in terms of
toxic timescapes is to radically shift our understanding of
toxicants in the complex web of life. Toxicity, pollution, and
modes of exposure are never static; therefore, dose, timing,
velocity, mixture, frequency, and chronology matter as much as the
geographic location and societal position of those exposed.
Together, these factors create a specific toxic timescape that lies
at the heart of each contributor's narrative. Contributors from the
disciplines of history, human geography, science and technology
studies, philosophy, and political ecology come together to
demonstrate the complex reality of a toxic existence. Their case
studies span the globe as they observe the intersection of multiple
times and spaces at such diverse locations as former battlefields
in Vietnam, aging nuclear-weapon storage facilities in Greenland,
waste deposits in southern Italy, chemical facilities along the
Gulf of Mexico, and coral-breeding laboratories across the world.
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