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082 0 4 _a363.73849
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLittle, Peter C.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aToxic Town :
_bIBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks /
_cPeter C. Little.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _aShows the risks of high-tech pollution through a study of an IBM plant's effects on a New York townIn 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 nation'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. In Toxic Town, Peter C. Little 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 IBM's stated mission is to build a "Smarter Planet." Little critically reflects on IBM'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. 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aComputer industry
_xEnvironmental aspects
_zNew York (State)
_zEndicott.
650 0 _aComputer industry
_xWaste disposal
_xEnvironmental aspects
_zNew York (State)
_zEndicott.
650 0 _aHazardous waste site remediation
_zNew York (State)
_zEndicott.
650 0 _aHazardous waste sites
_zNew York (State)
_zEndicott.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814764510
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