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Book SynopsisSuzana Sawyer traces Ecuador’s lawsuit against the Chevron corporation for the environmental devastation resulting from its oil drilling practices, showing how distinct legal truths were relationally composed of, with, and through crude oil.
Trade Review"A monumental book. . . . An innovative study at the interface of law, health, and the environment,
The Small Matter of Suing Chevron will appeal to anthropologists of all stripes, as well as legal scholars, epidemiologists, and those working in the environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and Latin American contexts. As global toxics threaten to resign us all to irredeemable loss, Sawyer’s masterful ethnography demonstrates how it is still both possible and necessary to take a stand against corporate power and judicial imperialism." -- Lindsay Ofrias * NACLA *
Table of ContentsTime Line
Acknowledgments
Fraud
Opening: Crude's Valence of Truths
I. Dissociating Bonds
Hearing
1. Chemical Agency: Of Hydrocarbons and Toxicity
Inspection
2. Exposure's Orbitals: Of Epidemiology and Calculation
Death
II. Spectral Radicals
Catch
3. Alchemical Deals: Of Contracts and Their Seepage
Clandestine
4. Radical Inspections: Of Sensorium as Toxic Proposition
Kuankuan
III. Delocalized Stabilities
CEO
5. Plurivalent Rendering: Of Prehension Becoming Precaution
Never
6. Bonding Veredictum: Of Corporate Capacity and Technique
Tethered
Derision
Metamorphic Reprise: Valence in the Mixt
Amisacho
Notes
References
Index
