Advocacy after Bhopal Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders

Name: Advocacy after Bhopal Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders
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ISBN: 9780226257204

ISBN-10: 0226257207

ISBN-13: 9780226257204

Edition: 2001

Authors: 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 resulting litigation 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…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.18" wide x 8.98" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prologue: The Times


Introduction: Advocacy, Ethnography, and Complex Systems



Plaintive Response



Happening Here



Union Carbide, Having a Hand in Things



Working Perspectives



States of India



Situational Particularities



Opposing India



Women's Movements



Anarchism and Its Discontents



Communities Concerned about Corporations



Green Consulting


Epilogue


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index