Advocacy after Bhopal
Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders
Advocacy after Bhopal
Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders
Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the victims’ stories, the innovative narrative sheds light on the way advocacy works within a complex global system, calling into question conventional notions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Revealing the hopes and frustrations of advocacy, this moving work also counters the tendency to think of Bhopal as an isolated incident that "can’t happen here."
488 pages | 34 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2001
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Asian Studies: South Asia
Earth Sciences: Environment
Law and Legal Studies: Law and Society
Political Science: Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, and International Relations
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PROLOGUE: THE TIMES
INTRODUCTIONAdvocacy, Ethnography, and Complex
Systems
ONEPlaintive Response
TWOHappening Here
THREE Union Carbide, Having a Hand in Things
FOURWorking Perspectives
FIVEStates of India
SIXSituational Particularities
SEVENOpposing India
EIGHTWomen’s Movements
NINEAnarchism and Its Discontents
TENCommunities Concerned about
Corporations
ELEVENGreen Consulting
EPILOGUE
APPENDIX
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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