Toxic commons and the politics of ambivalence: re-imagining toxic legacy sites

  • Toxic Commons is an interdisciplinary, co-authored endeavor that promotes new pathways of understanding, living-with, and caring for toxic legacies through “‘commoning” in a way that engages with the ambivalences of toxic exposures that equally divide and bind humanity across the planet. More specifically, through Toxic Commons, we are promoting a relational epistemology that tries to reconcile the situated with the planetary in the context of pollution as a global problem, thereby pushing forward critiques of the Anthropocene within the Environmental Humanities. Furthermore, we seek to develop the epistemological, ethical, and technological tools necessary to intervene at toxic sites—what we imagine as a “negative commons”—thereby inviting researchers to move beyond a recognition of being-in-common to investigate and participate in practices of commoning, that is, sharing knowledge and decision-making about toxic sites and their legacies.

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Author:Simone M. MüllerORCiDGND, Angeliki Balayannis
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/117754
ISBN:9781032627946OPAC
Parent Title (English):Ecological ambivalence, complexity, and change: perspectives from the environmental humanities
Publisher:Routledge
Place of publication:Abingdon
Editor:Simone M. MüllerORCiDGND, Matthias SchmidtORCiDGND, Kirsten TwelbeckORCiDGND
Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2025
Release Date:2024/12/20
First Page:68
Last Page:84
DOI:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032627984-7
Institutes:Philologisch-Historische Fakultät
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte
Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Geschichte / DFG-Heisenberg Professur für Globale Umweltgeschichte und Environmental Humanities
Dewey Decimal Classification:9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie