Liboiron, Max (Author)
Tironi, Manuel (Author)
Calvillo, Nerea (Author)
Social Studies of Science
Volume: 48
Issue: 3
Pages: 331-349
Edition Details: Special Issue: Toxic Politics. Guest edited by Nerea Calvillo, Max Liboiron, Manuel Tironi and Nicole Nelson
Language: English
Toxicity has become a ubiquitous, if uneven, condition. Toxicity can allow us to focus on how forms of life and their constituent relations, from the scale of cells to that of ways of life, are enabled, constrained and extinguished within broader power systems. Toxicity both disrupts existing orders and ways of life at some scales, while simultaneously enabling and maintaining ways of life at other scales. The articles in this special issue on toxic politics examine power relations and actions that have the potential for an otherwise. Yet, rather than focus on a politics that depends on the capture of social power via publics, charismatic images, shared epistemologies and controversy, we look to forms of slow, intimate activism based in ethics rather than achievement. One of the goals of this introduction and its special issue is to move concepts of toxicity away from fetishized and evidentiary regimes premised on wayward molecules behaving badly, so that toxicity can be understood in terms of reproductions of power and justice. The second goal is to move politics in a diversity of directions that can texture and expand concepts of agency and action in a permanently polluted world.
...MoreArticle Nerea Calvillo (June 2018) Political airs: From monitoring to attuned sensing air pollution. Social Studies of Science (pp. 372-388).
Article Christy Spackman; Gary A. Burlingame (June 2018) Sensory politics: The tug-of-war between potability and palatability in municipal water production. Social Studies of Science (pp. 350-371).
Article Kristina Lyons (June 2018) Chemical warfare in Colombia, evidentiary ecologies and senti-actuando practices of justice. Social Studies of Science (pp. 414-437).
Article Amelia Fiske (June 2018) Dirty hands: The toxic politics of denunciation. Social Studies of Science (pp. 389-413).
Article Manuel Tironi (June 2018) Hypo-interventions: Intimate activism in toxic environments. Social Studies of Science (pp. 438-455).
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