Bodies, Toxins, and E-Waste Labour Interventions in Ghana
Toward a Toxic Postcolonial Corporality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2294760 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Little, Peter C Little (0000-0001-6628-0867, Rhode Island College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 01 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AIBR Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1578-9705 • E-ISSN: 1695-9752 |
| Publisher | AIBR - Asociacion de Antropologos Iberoamericanos en Red (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11156/aibr.140104e |
| OpenAlex | W3084327208 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article explores the lived experience of electronic waste (e-waste) workers in Agbogbloshie, a primary e-waste recycling center and scrap metal market in Accra, Ghana, that has been described by international environmental organizations as one of the most polluted places on Earth. To formulate a more critical and contextual understanding of the lives of these e-waste workers and their embodied toxic experience, the article introduces the concept of "toxic postcolonial corporality", a term deployed to navigate and confront the contentious intersection of bodies, toxins, and "green" recycling interventions in a postcolonial urban scrapyard. After introducing the social, economic, and toxic dimensions of Agbogbloshie, I discuss the problems and politics of permeability in general and the precarious boundaries of bodies, environments, and risk mitigation practices in a postcolonial context in particular. It will be argued that the notion of toxic postcolonial corporality offers a possible critical environmental health perspective that can inform anthropological engagements with the embedded lives navigating the permeable and intersecting worlds of pollution, postcolonization, and decontamination
Archaeology · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Sociology · History · Law · Medicine · Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
Reaching for environmental health justice
Electronic Waste and the Environmental Justice Challenge in Agbogbloshie
Toxic Disasters, Biopolitics, and Corrosive Communities
A review of the environmental fate and effects of hazardous substances released from electrical and electronic equipments during recycling
Epigenetics
Materiality and Waste
Political Ecologies of Electronic Waste
What if the Environment is a Person? Lineages of Epigenetic Science in a Toxic China
Beyond risk
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |