Toxic Talk and Collective (In)action in a Company Town
The Case of La Oroya, Peru
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2245115 |
|---|---|
| Autores | P Neumann (0000-0002-6880-852X, Tulane University, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2016 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 431-446 |
| Data de publicação | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Editora | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/socpro/spw010 |
| OpenAlex | W2477321247 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 18 |
| Referências citadas | 38 |
The dynamics of contaminated communities have become an increasingly important area of research with the rise of environmental hazards worldwide. While much is known about communities that unite to protest toxic conditions, places where such mobilization has not occurred are far less frequently studied. Drawing on five months of ethnographic research, this article examines one such community (La Oroya) in Peru that is plagued by dangerously high lead levels, a product of 90 years of heavy metal smelter activity. What little mobilization has occurred in La Oroya arose not to protest contamination, but rather to contest the potential closure of the metallurgical complex. Through an analysis of the discursive frames that residents use to make sense of contamination, this article highlights the significance of community, collective self-understandings, and moral boundary making in community responses to toxic conditions. These aforementioned dimensions—not merely the presence of industry or potential job loss—shape subjective perceptions of risk in La Oroya in ways that tend to suppress the emergence of sustained collective action. La dinámica de comunidades contaminadas se han convertido en un área cada vez más importante de la investigación con el aumento de los riesgos ambientales en todo el mundo. Si bien se sabe mucho acerca de las comunidades que se unen para protestar por las condiciones tóxicas, lugares en los que no se ha llevado a cabo esa movilización son estudiados con menos frecuencia. Sobre la base de cinco meses de investigación etnográfica, este trabajo examina una de estas comunidades (La Oroya) en el Perú que está plagada de niveles peligrosamente altos de plomo, un producto de noventa años de actividad de fundición de metales pesados. La poca movilización en La Oroya no se levantó para protestar por la contaminación, sino más bien para disputar el posible cierre del complejo metalúrgico. A través de un análisis de los marcos discursivos que los residentes utilizan para dar sentido a la contaminación, este artículo pone de relieve la importancia del lugar, auto-comprensiones colectivas, y el límite de decisiones morales en las respuestas comunitarias hacia condiciones tóxicas. Argumento que estas dimensiones mencionadas—no simplemente la presencia de la industria o la pérdida de empleo potenciales—forman percepciones subjetivas de riesgo en La Oroya en formas que suelen suprimir la surgimiento de la sostenida acción colectiva.
Art · Collective action · CONTEST · Ethnography · Ethnology · Humanities · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Risk Perception and Management
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Mining and Defensive Mobilization
Defying gravity
Toxic endurance and social becoming
Ni a favor ni en contra
Residual unprotection
The role of working-class communities and the slow violence of toxic pollution in environmental health conflicts
Who Speaks for the Place? Cultural Dynamics of Conflicts Over Hazardous Industrial Development
“Our Plants are Slowly Dying here, Just Like us”
Immission levels and identification of sulfur dioxide sources in La Oroya city, Peruvian Andes
This Is a Good Neighborhood. This Ain’t No Pittsburgh!”
Why Political Scientists Should Study Smaller Cities
Toxic displacements
The tenacity of trust in petrochemical communities
Environmental Justice in Latin America
Toxic Space and Time
Accumulated Injuries of Environmental Injustice
Emotion and othering in a contaminated community
Illness and the Environment
Disaster by Design
Life Exposed
Credit and Blame
Flammable
Intellectual Impairment in Children with Blood Lead Concentrations below 10 μg per Deciliter
The Long-Term Effects of Exposure to Low Doses of Lead in Childhood
Environmental Hazard and Institutional Betrayal
Environmental Justice in Latin America
Putting Social Movements in their Place
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
From Environmental Trauma to Safe Haven
Site Fights”
It Was Tourism Repellent, That’s What We Were Spraying”
Tracing the Veins
Contention Over Space And Place
The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty
Advocacy after Bhopal
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Popular Epidemiology and Toxic Waste Contamination
Contested Environmental Hazards and Community Conflict Over Relocation
Waiting for Crisis
Sociobiophysicality and the Necessity of Critical Theory
Turning Public Issues Into Private Troubles
Global Ethnography and Genetically Modified Crops in Argentina
Popular Epidemiology Revisited
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
An Environmental Sociology for the Twenty-First Century
Environmental Controversies, Interactional Resources, and Rural Communities
Mining for Conflict and Staking Claims
Odious Comparisons
The Talk and Back Talk of Collective Action
The Enduring Conflict of 'Jobs Versus the Environment
Beyond 'identity
| Obras citantes distintas | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 2,25 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 18 |