Description
Trade Review"
Negative Ecologies provides a genuinely new historical analysis and nuanced ethnographic portrayal of the empire of oil. Bond captures a fundamental paradox of the taken-for-granted status of environmental management tools—thresholds and impact assessments— and specifically their role as gatekeepers, determining at what levels harm is constituted as safe, acceptable, and without corporate liability.
Negative Ecologies is a must-read." * American Anthropologist *
Table of ContentsContents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Promise and Predicament of Crude Oil
1. Environment: A Disastrous History of the Hydrocarbon Present
2. Governing Disaster
3. Ethical Oil
4. Occupying the Implication
5. Petrochemical Fallout
6. The Ecological Mangrove
Conclusion: Negative Ecologies and the Discovery of the Environment
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
