Dust Inside - Fighting and Living With Asbestos-Related Disasters in Brazil

Toxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle daily in the name of social and environmental justice. Grounded in a profound, touching ethnography, this book offers an original contribution to understanding global health disasters and grassroots health-based activism.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Translation

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: My Path into the Dust

Chapter 1. The Toxic Market of Asbestos and Global Health Disasters

Chapter 2. Osasco: City, Work and Struggles

Chapter 3. Suffering and Embodied Disasters

Chapter 4. The Politics of Anti-Asbestos Activism

Chapter 5. Engaging Global Health, Anti-Asbestos Activism and Ethnography

Conclusion

Glossary

References

Index

About the author

Agata Mazzeo is Adjunct Professor of History of Anthropology at the University of Bologna. She has been published in international journals and she has co-authored articles on the asbestos market.

Summary

Toxic production, disrupted lives and contaminated bodies. Care for unacknowledged suffering, incurable cancers, and immeasurable losses. This book bears witness to the invisible disasters provoked by the asbestos market worldwide and gives a voice to the communities of survivors who struggle daily in the name of social and environmental justice.

Product details

• Authors: Agata Mazzeo
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781789209310
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-931-0
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Pharmacy; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Brazil, Anthropology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MEDICAL / Toxicology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Medical toxicology, Social and cultural anthropology, Human biology, Medical Anthropology; Environmental Studies (General)