Homesick / Nicholas Edward Shapiro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Nicholas Edward, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Critical global health

Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency.

United States.

Emergency housing--Health aspects--Gulf Coast (U.S.).

Emergency housing.

Mobile homes--Health aspects--Gulf Coast (U.S.).

Mobile homes.

Mobile home industry--Health aspects--Gulf Coast (U.S.).

Mobile home industry.

Formaldehyde--Toxicology--Gulf Coast (U.S.).

Formaldehyde.

Housing and health--Gulf Coast (U.S.).

Housing and health.

Biopolitics--United States.

Biopolitics.

United States--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 234 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Homesick is an ethnographic exploration of chemical poisoning from building materials, focusing on the 120,000 FEMA trailers supplied by the US government for emergency housing following Hurricane Katrina. These trailers, produced from engineered woods potent with formaldehyde, were notoriously toxic structures that contributed to further death and sickness in the already devastated areas of the Gulf Coast. The trailers were banned, but were frequently resold and again used for housing, scattering their harm to other people and areas. Nicholas Shapiro, who has spent almost fifteen years working with community-based environmental groups, follows the paths of the trailers and their inhabitants, also reflecting on issues in doing this kind of ethnographic work. He broadens the focus to other toxic home environments as well, looking at the class and racial politics of who is affected. Exploring chemical and health effects, as well as community and individual efforts to achieve better life, health, and justice, Shapiro highlights how homesickness for an otherwise future can herald meaningful change"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Homesick, Otherwise

At Home in the Surreal

From Chemical Fetishes to the Late Industrial Sublime

Un-knowing Exposure

Environmental Litigation and the Fantasy of Accountability

Working the Stopgap

From Policymaking to Alter-Engineered Worlds

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Shapiro, Nicholas Edward. Homesick.

ISBN:

9781478094357

1478094354

9781478061298

1478061294

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.