Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks

Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks

In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by carcinogens, Endicott is the subject of one of the nationâ€™s largest corporate-state mitigation efforts. Yet despite the efforts of IBM and the U.S. government, Endicott residents remain skeptical that the mitigation systems employed were designed with their best interests at heart. Â

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InÂ Toxic Town,Â Peter C. LittleÂ tracks and critically diagnoses the experiences of Endicott residents as they learn to live with high-tech pollution, community transformation, scientific expertise, corporate-state power, and risk mitigation technologies. By weaving together the insights of anthropology, political ecology, disaster studies, and science and technology studies, the book explores questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics of risk and the ironies of technological disaster response in a time when IBMâ€™sÂ statedÂ mission is to build a â€œSmarter Planet.â€Â

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Little critically reflects on IBMâ€™s new corporate tagline, arguing for a political ecology of corporate social and environmental responsibility and accountability that places the social and environmental politics of risk mitigation front and center.Â Ultimately, Little argues that we will need much more than hollow corporate taglines, claims of corporate responsibility, and attempts to mitigate high-tech disasters to truly build a smarter planet.
Country USA
Manufacturer NYU Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-03-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	NYU Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-03-14
Format	Kindle eBook

Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks

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