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Tóxicos invisibles: La construcción de la ignorancia ambiental (Invisible toxins: The construction of environmental ignorance) (2020)

Guillem-Llobat, Ximo (Editor)
Nieto-Galan, Agustí (Editor)

Icaria Editorial
Publication date: 2020
Language: Spanish; Castilian

ISBN: 9788498889765

Publication Date: 2020
Edition Details: Book Series: Icaria antrazyt, no. 504
Physical Details: 279

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Tóxicos invisibles nos presenta un conjunto de historias poco conocidas de contaminación ambiental a lo largo del siglo xx. Nos transporta a determinados lugares, industrias, regiones, en los que la connivencia de los expertos con las administraciones públicas y las empresas privadas ha silenciado e invisibilizado a las principales víctimas de la toxicidad: trabajadores, activistas, ciudadanos en general. A través de un conjunto de investigaciones históricas rigurosas, el libro muestra como en estos conflictos ambientales se activan sofisticados mecanismos de construcción de la ignorancia que dificultan la correcta regulación de productos y la recuperación de espacios enfermos, degradados de manera casi irreversible. Tóxicos invisibles es una denuncia de nuestras sociedades industriales desreguladas, complacientes con los riesgos de miles de productos sintéticos que invaden nuestras vidas, y al mismo tiempo una apelación a la responsabilidad de todos para mejorar nuestras condiciones de vida. (Invisible Toxins presents us with a set of little-known stories of environmental pollution throughout the 20th century. It transports us to certain places, industries, regions, where the collusion of experts with public administrations and private companies has silenced and made invisible the main victims of toxicity: workers, activists, citizens in general. Through a set of rigorous historical investigations, the book shows how in these environmental conflicts sophisticated mechanisms of construction of ignorance are activated that hinder the correct regulation of products and the recovery of sick spaces, almost irreversibly degraded. Invisible Toxins is a denunciation of our deregulated industrial societies, complacent with the risks of thousands of synthetic products that invade our lives, and at the same time an appeal to everyone's responsibility to improve our living conditions.)

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Review Laura Barbier (April 2023) Review of "Tóxicos invisibles: La construcción de la ignorancia ambiental (Invisible toxins: The construction of environmental ignorance)". Technology and Culture (pp. 599-600). unapi

Review María José Correa-Gómez (2022) Review of "Tóxicos invisibles: La construcción de la ignorancia ambiental (Invisible toxins: The construction of environmental ignorance)". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 332-334). unapi

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