Essays about: "economy of asbestos"

Found 1 essay containing the words economy of asbestos.

  1. 1. Disparate Lives, Fractured Mineral: Toxic Displacement in the Global Economy of Asbestos

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Nicholas Surber; [2018]
    Keywords : Eternit; economy of asbestos; displacement; abstract space; socio-natural transformation; slow violence; toxicity; environmental public health; ecological Marxism; post-humanism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The established scientific reality of asbestos is that (a) asbestos is toxic at a minuscule dose, and (b) exposure should be avoided whenever possible, with the evidence expanding almost exponentially over the past century. The purpose of this research is to explore the historical and global socio-natural entanglements of the economy of asbestos and the resulting mechanisms at play to occlude and marginalise the toxicity and emphasise profitability. READ MORE