This article discusses the shift in perception regarding polluted water. When did perceptions of polluted water change, when was it no longer considered a part of everyday life? And what caused the tide to turn?
Rural villagers in China have a sophisticated awareness of the risks they face due to pollution, yet they often feel that they are helpless to improve their situation.
Sandlos and Keeling explore Indigenous resistance to arsenic pollution. Indigenous communities mobilized knowledge around environmental pollution and its health impacts. The authors show how this resistance to environmental racism is connected to other Indigenous struggles over industrial development and to issues such as land claims, sovereignty, and colonial dispossession.
A visual essay on the physical sites we often don’t see (or don’t want to see).
