Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life (Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures)

In Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals marks a deliberate and violent relationship with the Earth and its'others,'born of colonialism and capitalism's entwined histories. Mathur offers the concept of'toxicity as a form of life'to signpost the normalization of toxic exposure and analyzes how states use toxicity to control populations on the fringes of our global political economy by making them available to be poisoned. "This book explores the broader question of what it means to "live with" toxicity as a condition of life, particularly for disadvantaged communities in India. Mathur argues that the geographically uneven exposure to toxicity is a deliberate strategy of global neoliberalism to ensure that power is concentrated in the hands of the few"-- Provided by publisher Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Living in the Toxcene Peddlers of Poisons Manufacturing Disaster Creating Ecological Death-Worlds Conclusion Bibliography Index About the Author