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New perspectives on how envirotech can help us engage with the
surrounding world in ways that are more sustainable for
humanity-and the planet. Today's scientists, policymakers, and
citizens are all confronted by numerous dilemmas at the nexus of
technology and the environment. Every day seems to bring new
worries about the dangers posed by carcinogens, "superbugs," energy
crises, invasive species, genetically modified organisms,
groundwater contamination, failing infrastructure, and other
troubling issues. In Technology and the Environment in History,
Sara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring adopt an analytical approach
to explore current research at the intersection of environmental
history and the history of technology-an emerging field known as
envirotech. Technology and the Environment in History They discuss
the important topics, historical processes, and scholarly concerns
that have emerged from recent work in thinking about envirotech.
Each chapter focuses on a different urgent topic: * Food and Food
Systems: How humans have manipulated organisms and ecosystems to
produce nutrients for societies throughout history. *
Industrialization: How environmental processes have constrained
industrialization and required shifts in the relationships between
human and nonhuman nature. * Discards: What we can learn from the
multifaceted forms, complex histories, and unexpected possibilities
of waste. * Disasters: How disaster, which the authors argue is
common in the industrialized world, exposes the fallacy of tidy
divisions among nature, technology, and society. * Body: How bodies
reveal the porous boundaries among technology, the environment, and
the human. * Sensescapes: How environmental and technological
change have reshaped humans' (and potentially nonhumans') sensory
experiences over time. Using five concepts to understand the
historical relationships between technology and the
environment-porosity, systems, hybridity, biopolitics, and
environmental justice-Pritchard and Zimring propose a chronology of
key processes, moments, and periodization in the history of
technology and the environment. Ultimately, they assert,
envirotechnical perspectives help us engage with the surrounding
world in ways that are, we hope, more sustainable and just for both
humanity and the planet. Aimed at students and scholars new to
environmental history, the history of technology, and their nexus,
this impressive synthesis looks outward and forward-identifying
promising areas in more formative stages of intellectual
development and current synergies with related areas that have
emerged in the past few years, including environmental
anthropology, discard studies, and posthumanism.
Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the
United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene When
Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him
"clean and articulate," he unwittingly tapped into one of the most
destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells
the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those
who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to
the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day,
ideas about race and waste have shaped where people have lived,
where people have worked, and how American society's wastes have
been managed. In the wake of the civil war, as the nation
encountered emancipation, mass immigration, and the growth of an
urbanized society, Americans began to conflate the ideas of race
and waste. Certain immigrant groups took on waste management labor,
such as Jews and scrap metal recycling, fostering connections
between the socially marginalized and refuse. Ethnic "purity" was
tied to pure cleanliness, and hygiene became a central aspect of
white identity. Carl A. Zimring here draws on historical evidence
from statesmen, scholars, sanitarians, novelists, activists,
advertisements, and the United States Census of Population to
reveal changing constructions of environmental racism. The material
consequences of these attitudes endured and expanded through the
twentieth century, shaping waste management systems and
environmental inequalities that endure into the twenty-first
century. Today, the bigoted idea that non-whites are "dirty"
remains deeply ingrained in the national psyche, continuing to
shape social and environmental inequalities in the age of Obama.
Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and
economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of
a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1889,
New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and
waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of
residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in
the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any
consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how
cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the
challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest
city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to
investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most
distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the
field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern
city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.
Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the
United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene When
Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him
"clean and articulate," he unwittingly tapped into one of the most
destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells
the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those
who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to
the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day,
ideas about race and waste have shaped where people have lived,
where people have worked, and how American society's wastes have
been managed. In the wake of the civil war, as the nation
encountered emancipation, mass immigration, and the growth of an
urbanized society, Americans began to conflate the ideas of race
and waste. Certain immigrant groups took on waste management labor,
such as Jews and scrap metal recycling, fostering connections
between the socially marginalized and refuse. Ethnic "purity" was
tied to pure cleanliness, and hygiene became a central aspect of
white identity. Carl A. Zimring here draws on historical evidence
from statesmen, scholars, sanitarians, novelists, activists,
advertisements, and the United States Census of Population to
reveal changing constructions of environmental racism. The material
consequences of these attitudes endured and expanded through the
twentieth century, shaping waste management systems and
environmental inequalities that endure into the twenty-first
century. Today, the bigoted idea that non-whites are "dirty"
remains deeply ingrained in the national psyche, continuing to
shape social and environmental inequalities in the age of Obama.
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