5 January 2022

Chemicalized Americas Bibliography

Agard-Jones, Vanessa. “Spray.” Somatosphere, 27 May 2014, http://somatosphere.net/2014/spray.html/.

Arbona, Javier. “The Explosivity of Kelp.” Society and Space, https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-explosivity-of-kelp. Accessed 22 Dec. 2020.

Barry, Andrew. “Manifesto for a Chemical Geography.” Inaugural Lecture, University College London, UK, January, vol. 24, 2017.

Belcher, Oliver, et al. “Hidden Carbon Costs of the ‘Everywhere War’: Logistics, Geopolitical Ecology, and the Carbon Boot‐Print of the US Military.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, June 2019. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12319.

Benko, Keli. “People Need to Know! Notification and the Regulation of Pesticide Use near Public Schools in California.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, vol. 3, no. 1, Mar. 2020, pp. 164–85. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619851102.

Boudia, Soraya, and Nathalie Jas, editors. Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World. Berghahn Books, 2014.

Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico. University of California Press, 2002.

Chen, Mel Y. “Animacies Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect.” Animacies Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Duke University Press, 2012.

Cram, Shannon. “Living in Dose: Nuclear Work and the Politics of Permissible Exposure.” Public Culture, vol. 28, no. 3 80, Sept. 2016, pp. 519–39. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3511526.

Davies, Thom. “Photography and Toxic Pollution: Exposing a Chemical Company.” Science as Culture, vol. 27, no. 4, Oct. 2018, pp. 543–51. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2018.1523885.

–-. “Toxic Space and Time: Slow Violence, Necropolitics, and Petrochemical Pollution.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, vol. 108, no. 6, Nov. 2018, pp. 1537–53. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1470924.

Davis, Heather. “Toxic Progeny: The Plastisphere and Other Queer Futures.” PhiloSOPHIA, vol. 5, no. 2, State University of New York Press, 2015, pp. 231–50.

Davis, Mike. Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb. 2017.

Deborah Davis Jackson. “Scents of Place: The Dysplacement of a First Nations Community in Canada.” American Anthropologist, vol. 113, no. 4, Dec. 2011, pp. 606–18. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01373.x.

Dillon, Lindsey. “Pandemonium on the Bay: Naval Station Treasure Island and the Toxic Legacies of Atomic Defense.” Urban Reinventions : San Francisco’s Treasure Island, University of Hawaii Press, 2017, pp. 140–58.

“EP 11: Why Pollution Is as Much about Colonialism as Chemicals.” Don’t Call Me Resilient, https://dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-11-why-pollution-is-as-much-about-colonialism-as-chemicals. Accessed 29 Dec. 2021.

Fiederlein, Suzanne, and SaraJane Rzegocki. “Explosive Remnants of War in Afghanistan.” Costs of War, 19 Sept. 2019, https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2019/Explosive%20Remnants%20of%20War%20in%20Afghanistan_Costs%20of%20War.pdf.

Graeter, Stefanie. “Infrastructural Incorporations: Toxic Storage, Corporate Indemnity, and Ethical Deferral in Peru’s Neoextractive Era.” American Anthropologist, vol. 122, no. 1, Mar. 2020, pp. 21–36. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13367.

Guthman, Julie. Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry. University of California Press, 2019. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520973343.

Jain, S. Lochlann. Malignant : How Cancer Becomes Us. University of California Press, 2013.

Krupar, Shiloh R. Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste. University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Lee, Rachel. “A Lattice of Chemicalized Kinship : Toxicant Reckoning in a Depressive-Reparative Mode.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, vol. 6, no. 1, 1, May 2020. catalystjournal.org, https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v6i1.33904.

Liboiron, Max. Pollution Is Colonialism. Duke University Press, 2021.

–-. “Redefining Pollution and Action: The Matter of Plastics.” Journal of Material Culture, vol. 21, no. 1, Mar. 2016, pp. 87–110. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183515622966.

Lyons, Kristina. “Chemical Warfare in Colombia, Evidentiary Ecologies and Senti-Actuando Practices of Justice.” Social Studies of Science, vol. 48, no. 3, June 2018, pp. 414–37. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312718765375.

Lyons, Kristina M. Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics. Duke University Press, 2020.

MacKendrick, Norah. Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate Exposure to Everyday Toxics. University of California Press, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520969070.

Masco, Joseph. “Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post–Cold War New Mexico.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 19, no. 4, Jan. 2004, pp. 517–50.

–-. “Nuclear Technoaesthetics: Sensory Politics from Trinity to the Virtual Bomb in Los Alamos.” American Ethnologist, vol. 31, no. 3, Aug. 2004, pp. 349–73. CrossRef, https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2004.31.3.349.

–-. The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. 2006.

Murphy, Michelle. “Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 32, no. 4, Nov. 2017, pp. 494–503. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.02.

–-. “Chemical Regimes of Living.” Environmental History, vol. 13, no. 4, [Forest History Society, Forest History Society and The American Society for Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History, Oxford University Press], 2008, pp. 695–703.

–-. “Distributed Reproduction, Chemical Violence, and Latency.” S&F Online, https://sfonline.barnard.edu/life-un-ltd-feminism-bioscience-race/distributed-reproduction-chemical-violence-and-latency/. Accessed 29 Dec. 2021.

Myers, Natasha. Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter. Duke University Press, 2015.

Nixon, Rob. “Of Land Mines and Cluster Bombs.” Cultural Critique, no. 67, University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pp. 160–74.

–-. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press, 2011.

Pellow, David N., and Lisa Sun-Hee Park. The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy. New York University Press, 2002.

Povinelli, Elizabeth A. “Fires, Fogs, Winds.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 32, no. 4, Nov. 2017, pp. 504–13. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.4.03.

Reno, Joshua. Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness. 2020.

Romero, Adam. Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture. University of California Press, 2022.

Romero, Adam M. “Beyond the Mother Lode.” California History, vol. 95, no. 1, Feb. 2018, pp. 2–24. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2018.95.1.2.

–-. “Chemical Geographies.” GeoHumanities, vol. 3, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 158–77. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2017.1298972.

–-. “Commercializing Chemical Warfare: Citrus, Cyanide, and an Endless War.” Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 33, no. 1, Mar. 2016, pp. 3–26. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-015-9591-1.

Shapiro, Nicholas. “Attuning to the Chemosphere: Domestic Formaldehyde, Bodily Reasoning, and the Chemical Sublime.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 30, no. 3, Aug. 2015, pp. 368–93. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.14506/ca30.3.02.

Stop Drift | Pesticide Action Network. https://www.panna.org/our-campaigns/stop-drift. Accessed 29 Dec. 2021.

Sze, Julie. Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger. University of California Press, 2020.

–-. Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. MIT Press, 2007.

Szeman, Imre, and Jeff Diamanti, editors. Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond. West Virginia University Press, 2019.

Todd, Zoe. “Fish, Kin and Hope: Tending to Water Violations in Amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six Territory.” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, vol. 43, Mar. 2017, pp. 102–07. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1086/692559.

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2021.

Waldman, Linda. The Politics of Asbestos: Understandings of Risk, Disease and Protest. Earthscan, 2011.

Weeks, Maya. “Polar Amplifications.” The New Inquiry, 6 Apr. 2018, https://thenewinquiry.com/polar-amplifications/.

Werner, Marion, et al. “The Glyphosate Assemblage: Herbicides, Uneven Development, and Chemical Geographies of Ubiquity.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, vol. 112, no. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 19–35. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2021.1898322.

Williams, Brian. “‘That We May Live’: Pesticides, Plantations, and Environmental Racism in the United States South.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, vol. 1, no. 1–2, Mar. 2018, pp. 243–67. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848618778085.

Zahara, Alex. “Queering Chemicals (EDCs): A Bibliography.” Discard Studies, 15 Apr. 2019, https://discardstudies.com/2019/04/15/queering-edcs-a-bibliography/.

Zani, Leah. Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos. Duke University Press, 2019.

–-. “Bomb Ecologies.” Environmental Humanities, vol. 10, no. 2, Nov. 2018, pp. 528–31. Silverchair, https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-7156870.