The Anthropocene, a proposed name for a geological epoch marked by human impacts on
global ecosystems, has inspired anthropologists to critique, to engage in theoretical and …

Abstract Although geogenic Arsenic (As) contamination is well-recognized in northern Chile,
it is not restricted to this part of the country, as the geological conditions favoring As release …

Toxicity has become a ubiquitous, if uneven, condition. Toxicity can allow us to focus on how
forms of life and their constituent relations, from the scale of cells to that of ways of life, are …

Analysing a sample of 3,033 environmental conflicts around the globe, we compared
conflicts reporting no human health impacts to those reporting health impacts linked to toxic …

The Anthropocene is an uneven phenomenon. Accelerated shifts in the functioning of the
Earth System are mainly driven by the production and consumption of wealthy economies …

This article examines the paradox of 'noxious deindustrialisation'–employment
deindustrialisation in areas where significantly noxious industries are still operating–in the …

Marine sacrificial zones are planned areas dedicated to the toxic violence of carbo-chemical
port development around the world. In the marine environment in Chile, repeated fisher led …

In the 1960s, the Quintero industrial complex was inaugurated in Chile. This began a history
of dramatic anthropogenic impacts on the Chilean coast. Among the known, we could …

The invention of new forms of geo-social knowledge has become one of the imperatives to
resist the so-called Anthropocene. Critical theorists have called for enhanced …

Using the centennial anniversary of TS Eliot's The Waste Land as an opportune moment to
reconsider the reflexive and the discursive in addressing themes occupying critical and …