Tracing Toxic Legacies

GIS and the Dispersed Violence of Agent Orange

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ID12914647
AuthorsDaniel Grinberg (0000-0002-3184-5095, University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume11
Issue1
Pages38-57
Publication date2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17526272.2017.1416762
OpenAlexW2791161966
LanguageEN
References cited17

This article will discuss the U.S. military’s spraying of toxic defoliants over Vietnam from 1961 to 1971. It will first frame these attacks’ diffuse material and cultural legacies through the concept of dispersed violence. By incorporating multiple spatiotemporal scales that encompass a range of forces, this notion seeks to recognize both the long-term consequences of war and the challenges of grasping these impacts decades later. This article will then address geographic information systems (GIS) and public participatory geographic information systems (PPGIS), and examine how these technologies can newly register the tolls of Agent Orange and other herbicides. It will consider the potentialities and limitations of these visualizations, as well as analyze some extant examples. Ultimately, it will argue that resituating the violence of Agent Orange through GIS can mark one significant step towards reconceiving the toxic residues of remote warfare

Agent Orange · Archaeology · Biology · Citizen journalism · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Extant taxon · Geographic information system · Geography · Political science · Remote sensing · Sociology · Tracing · Archaeological Research and Protection · Computer Science · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Law · Military Strategy and Technology

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