Chemical Exposures: Toxicity in the Anthropocene

Exposure to toxic chemicals has become commonplace, yet the study of both chemicals and toxicity has tended to remain at the margins of the social sciences and humanities. This volume addresses the entangled landscape of toxic chemicals in the Anthropocene, drawing together research by anthropologists, geographers, artists and scholars in science and technology studies. The contributors understand chemical pollution as not simply pervasive, but multiple, situated and unequal, profoundly relational and affective, traversing temporal and spatial scales. Chemical worlds continuously disrupt and reconfigure the relations between the geological and the human, the political and the material and between academic disciplines and environmental governance. Chemical Exposures explores the accumulation of toxic substances, the multiple scales of exposure and the diverse ways in which exposure can be both sensed and visualised.

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Book launch with editors Sahra Gibbon, Emilie Glazer, Lucy Sabin, Andrew Barry, with more TBA.