Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.
Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume provides a critical framing of the globally expanding field of toxic heritage. Authors from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies examine toxic heritage as both a material phenomenon and a concept. Organized into five thematic sections, the book explores the meaning and significance of toxic heritage, politics, narratives, affected communities, and activist approaches and interventions. It identifies critical issues and highlights areas of emerging research on the intersections of environmental harm with formal and informal memory practices, while also highlighting the resilience, advocacy, and creativity of communities, scholars, and heritage professionals in responding to the current environmental crises.
Toxic Heritage
is useful and relevant to scholars and students working across a range of disciplines, including heritage studies, environmental science, archaeology, anthropology, and geography.
Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue.
Foreword; Introduction: Toxic Heritage: An Introduction. Section 1:
Introduction - Section 1 "Framing Toxicity":
Chapter 1: Toxic legacies of
slickens in California: a mobile heritage of hydraulic mining debris; Visual
Essay 1: Visual Essay: Extraction old and new: toxic legacies of mining the
desert in southwestern Africa;
Chapter 2: Of blaes and bings: the (non)toxic
heritage of the West Lothian oil shale industry;
Chapter 3: When Toxic
Heritage is Forever: Confronting PFAS Contamination and Toxicity as Lived
Experience;
Chapter 4: Plasticity and Time: Using the Stress-Strain Curve as
a Framework for Investigating the Wicked Problems of Marine Pollution and
Climate Change. Section 2: Introduction - Section 2 "The Politics of Toxic
Heritage":
Chapter 5: Heritage-led Regeneration and the Sanitisation of
Memory in the Lower Swansea Valley; Case Study 1: Ghost Wrecks of the
Anthropocene: An Enduring Toxic Legacy of the Pacific War;
Chapter 6:
Military Legacies and Indigenous Heritage in Canadas Newest National Park
Reserve; Case Study 2: Trash Fires as Toxic Heritage in Palestine;
Chapter 7:
Politics of Mining: Toxic Heritage in the Atacama Desert; Case Study 3:
Sticky, Stinky, Squalid: The toxic leachate of households waste in an area
of urban decay in Tehran (Iran);
Chapter 8: Toxic Landmarking and
Technoprecarious Heritage in Ghana. Section 3: Section 3 Affected
Communities, Activism, and Agency Introduction:
Chapter 9: Reluctant
Returns: Repatriating a Poisoned Past; Case Study 4: Public Memory of Toxic
Displacement: Heavy Metal Contamination and Superfund Remediation in
Federally Assisted Housing Communities; Visual Essay 2: Translating and
Transforming Toxicity: Moving Between Ethnography and Graphic Art;
Chapter
10: Preservation by demolition: Toxic heritage in contemporary China;
Chapter
11: Unwanted Legacy and Memory of the Milieu: Toxic Materials, Remediation,
Habituation (Estarreja, Portugal);
Chapter 12: Environmental and Embodied
Agro-toxic heritage in Rural Uruguay: From Recognition to Transition to
Sustainability among Dairy Farmers. Section 4 Introduction - Section 4
"Narratives of Toxic Heritage":
Chapter 13: Dirty Laundry: the Toxic Heritage
of Dry Cleaning in Indianapolis, Indiana; Case Study 5: When Cleaning up the
Battlefields from Time of War has Polluted Soils in Time of Peace: A Silent
but Visible Toxic Legacy from the Great War;
Chapter 14: Toxic City:
Industrial Residues, the Body and Community Activism as Heritage Practice in
Glasgow; Case Study 6: Rubber as (toxic) heritage: the Amazonian rubber case;
Case Study 7: Three memory frameworks on Chernobyl;
Chapter 15: The Toxic
Anthracite: Toxic Heritage. Section 5: Introduction - Section 5 "Approaches
and Interventions":
Chapter 16: Environmental Justice Tours: Transformative
Narratives of Struggle, Solidarity and Activism; Visual Essay 3: Getting the
Lead Out, One Community at a Time; Case Study 8: Climate Museum UK: Practices
in Response to the Traumasphere;
Chapter 17: Toxic Heritage and Reparations:
Activating Memory for Climate Justice; Case Study 9: Case Study: From
Leftovers To Takeover: Latent Insurgency Amidst the Systems Remnants; Visual
Essay 4: Taking care of nuclear waste;
Chapter 18: Toxic and Wasted: Artists
Thinking About How to Engage With Material Futures; Conclusion: Why Toxic
Heritage Matters.
Elizabeth Kryder-Reid is Chancellors Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies and director of the Cultural Heritage Research Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis.
Sarah May is a Senior Consultant in Cultural Heritage at the sustainable development consultancy, Arup.
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