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Toxic Space and Time: Slow Violence, Necropolitics, and Petrochemical Pollution

Thom DaviesDepartment of Sociology, University of WarwickORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-8392-8151View further author information
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Pages 1537-1553 | Received 01 Aug 2017, Accepted 01 Mar 2018, Published online: 14 Jun 2018

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Figure 1. Chemical storage tanks viewed from the backyard of a participant in St. James, Louisiana. Source: Photo by author.

Figure 1. Chemical storage tanks viewed from the backyard of a participant in St. James, Louisiana. Source: Photo by author.

Figure 2. A participant picks at a pecan nut she found near her home in St. James, while she describes how pollution is slowly changing the local vegetation. Source: Photo by author.

Figure 2. A participant picks at a pecan nut she found near her home in St. James, while she describes how pollution is slowly changing the local vegetation. Source: Photo by author.

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