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Plastic Legacies : Pollution, Persistence, and Politics.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farrelly, Trisia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plastic scrap.
- Plastic scrap--Environmental aspects.
- Plastic scrap--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton : Athabasca University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Experts from across academic disciplines discuss how plastics are produced, consumed, and discarded and demonstrate the urgent need for legislative frameworks that attend to the complex social and ecological nature of the crisis.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Our Plastic Inheritance
- PART I POLLUTION
- 1 Marine Litter: Are There Solutions to This Global Environmental Problem?
- 2 Slow Violence: The Erosion of Marine Plastic Debris and of Human Health
- 3 How Seabirds and Indigenous Science Illustrate the Legacies of Plastics Pollution
- 4 Dawn of the Plastisphere: An Experiment with Unpredictable Effects
- PART II PERSISTENCE
- 5 Plastiglomerate: Plastics, Geology, and the New Materialism of the Anthropocene
- 6 Dressed in Plastic: The Persistence of Polyester Clothes
- 7 Caring for the Multiple Cares of Plastics
- 8 On Becoming a Massively Distributed Thing: Hedgehogs, Plastics, and the Bearable Lightness of Becoming
- PART III POLITICS
- 9 Communicative Capitalism, Technological Solutionism, and The Ocean Cleanup
- 10 Toward Large-Scale Social Change and Plastic Politics: An Anthropological Perspective on the Practices of a Danish Environmental Organization
- 11 Plastics Talk/Talking Plastics: The Communicative Power of Plasticity
- 12 Redressing the Faustian Bargains of Plastics Economies
- Conclusion: Where There's a Will . . . Contesting Our Plastic Inheritance
- List of Contributors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781771993289
- 1771993286
- OCLC:
- 1250027851
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