Life without Lead : Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay

by Daniel Renfrew

Book Details

Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics

ISBN-10 0520295471

ISBN-13 9780520295476

Publisher University of California Press

Imprint University of California Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 4th, 2018

Print length 296 Pages

Weight 460 grams

Dimensions 15.10 x 22.80 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Conservation of the environment

AI Summary

Ksh 4,500.00

Werezi Extended Catalogue 0 in stock

Delivery Location

County

Location

Delivery fee: Select location

Secure

Quality

Fast

Life without Lead examines the social, political, and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic. Drawing from a political ecology of health perspective, the book situates the Uruguayan lead contamination crisis in relation to neoliberal reform, globalization, and the resurgence of the political Left in Latin America. The author traces the rise of an environmental social justice movement, and the local and transnational circulation of environmental ideologies and contested science. Through fine-grained ethnographic analysis, this book shows how combating contamination intersected with class politics, explores the relationship of lead poisoning to poverty, and debates the best way to identify and manage an unprecedented local environmental health problem.

Get Life without Lead by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by University of California Press and it has pages.