Book ID: CBB523438486

Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation (2023)

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Mah, Alice (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 240
Language: English

In Petrochemical Planet Alice Mah examines the changing nature of the petrochemical industry as it faces the existential threats of climate change and environmental activism. Drawing on research from high-level industry meetings, petrochemical plant tours, and polluted communities, Mah juxtaposes the petrochemical industry’s destructive corporate worldviews with environmental justice struggles in the United States, China, and Europe. She argues that amid intensifying public pressures, a profound planetary industrial transformation is underway that is challenging the reigning age of plastics and fossil fuels. This challenge comes from what Mah calls multiscalar activism—a form of collective resistance that spans local, regional, national, and planetary sites and scales and addresses the interconnected issues of environmental justice, climate, pollution, health, extraction, land rights, workers’ rights, systemic racism, and toxic colonialism. Reflecting on the obstacles and openings for critical interventions in the petrochemical industry, Mah offers important insights into the possibilities for resistance and for developing alternatives to the reliance on fossil fuels.

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Authors & Contributors
Ahuja, Neel
Bluea, Gwendolyn
Rome, Adam
Vollmann, William T.
Wilson, Robert M.
Dauvergne, Peter
Journals
Business History Review
Science Communication
Social Studies of Science
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
Environmental History
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
MIT Press
The MIT Press
The University of North Carolina Press
Duke University Press
University of Oklahoma Press
University of Washington Press
Concepts
Political activists and activism
Climate change
Environmental justice
Petroleum industry
Colonialism
Pollution
People
Kerr, Roy Patrick
Greta Thunberg
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Flint (Michigan)
Africa
Appalachian region (North America)
Canada
Europe
Institutions
Du Pont Company
European Space Agency (ESA)
United States. Geological Survey
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
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