{"product_id":"reckoning-with-harm-9781477327784","title":"Reckoning with Harm","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnography of the Ecuadorian Amazon that demonstrates the need for a relational, place-based, contingent understanding of harm and toxicity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReckoning with Harm\u003c\/i\u003e paints a vivid and distressing picture of the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the entwining of oil and life has left an enduring impact on both the environment and the people who call this place home . . . The lessons within this book are immeasurable. * Latina Republic *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReckoning with Harm\u003c\/i\u003e is an exceptional study of the production of socioecological suffering arising from predatory oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon...[Fiske] skillfully weaves scholarship across disciplines, presenting a novel exploration of how such forms are being attended to, verified, and contested...[\u003ci\u003eReckoning with Harm\u003c\/i\u003e] poses crucial questions about responsibility and the long shadows of resource extraction while offering nuanced analysis of the complexities. A must-read for students and scholars of Latin American history and environmental injustice in contexts of resource extraction. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eIn sum, Amelia Fiske’s historic and ethnographic study includes oil harms to local indigenous forest residents but clearly introduces and details many colonists’ poorly-known lives…many with critical local and long-term health suffering, amidst defensive corporate explanations.  As with the broad human rights demands now linked to forested Amazonian Indigenous groups, many poor and recent colonists deserve similar international support. * ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Abbreviations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Note on Transcriptions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Oil: A Visual Glossary \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction. Encountering Harm \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. Building a Life on the Aguarico \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. Evidence \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. Bounding Harm \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Toxic Exposures \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 5. Touring Toxic Places \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion. Relations of the Aguarico-4 Well \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue: Una Masa Dura \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Works Cited \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408964264279,"sku":"9781477327784","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477327784.jpg?v=1730504885","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reckoning-with-harm-9781477327784","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}