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Glyphosate and the swirl : an agroindustrial chemical on the move (2023)

Duke University Press
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

ISBN: 9781478016755

Publication Date: 2023
Edition Details: Book Series: Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography
Physical Details: 174

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Herbicides Agricultural chemicals Ethnography Medical anthropology Toxicology Glyphosate (Round Up trademark) 20th century

Glyphosate and the Swirl is an ethnography of the agricultural chemical glyphosate (the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup) that engages in the debate over the safety of the chemical in the scientific and activist communities. Vincanne Adams argues that glyphosate is an unstable and unreliable actor that has caused chemical harm despite the fact that it has radically changed our food production. Embracing speculation as integral to the scientific process, Adams theorizes the "swirl"--an unstable body that is constantly moving, concentrating and dissipating, gaining traction and losing it, and refusing to settle--to describe both the circulation of glyphosate in our environment and the evolution of public and scholarly knowledge about it. (Publisher)

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Review David D. Vail (October 2023) Review of "Glyphosate and the swirl : an agroindustrial chemical on the move". Technology and Culture (pp. 1324-1325). unapi

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