| Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders Contributor(s): Fortun, Kim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226257207 ISBN-13: 9780226257204 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $40.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the litigation following the Bhopal disaster provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground. Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the gas victims' stories, Fortun's innovative narrative sheds light on the complex intertwined way advocacy works within a global system, calling into question conventional notions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Revealing the hopes and frustrations of advocacy, this moving work also counters the tendency to think of Bhopal as an isolated incident that "can't happen here." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Political Advocacy - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 363.705 |
| LCCN: 00046716 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.98" W x 8.98" (1.28 lbs) 488 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Chronological Period - 1990's - Chronological Period - 1980's - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an innovative model for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground. Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the victims' stories, the innovative narrative sheds light on the way advocacy works within a complex global system, calling into question conventional notions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Revealing the hopes and frustrations of advocacy, this moving work also counters the tendency to think of Bhopal as an isolated incident that can't happen here. |