Plastic Legacies

There is virtually nowhere on Earth today that remains untouched by plastic and ecosystems are evolving to adapt to this new context. While plastics have revolutionized our modern world, new and often unforeseen effects of plastic and its production are continually being discovered. Plastics are ent...

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description There is virtually nowhere on Earth today that remains untouched by plastic and ecosystems are evolving to adapt to this new context. While plastics have revolutionized our modern world, new and often unforeseen effects of plastic and its production are continually being discovered. Plastics are entangled in multiple ecological and social crises, from the plasticization of the oceans to the embeddedness of plastics in political hierarchies. The complexities surrounding the global plastic crisis require an interdisciplinary approach and the materialities of plastic demand new temporalities of thought and action. Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological challenges brought about by plastics. Contributors consider the unpredictable nature of plastics and weigh actionable solutions and mitigation processes against the ever-changing situation. Moving beyond policy changes, this volume offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to tackling the plastics crisis and explores how politics and communicative action are key to implementing social, cultural, and economic change.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-724822024-04-09T11:41:10Z Plastic Legacies Farrelly, Trisia Taffel, Sy Shaw, Ian plastic straws water bottles ocean garbage patch climate change plastic pollution in the ocean facts about plastic pollution animals eating plastic pollution plastisphere erosion erosion plastic chemicals plastic toxins disposable plastics ethical consumption ecological activism thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment There is virtually nowhere on Earth today that remains untouched by plastic and ecosystems are evolving to adapt to this new context. While plastics have revolutionized our modern world, new and often unforeseen effects of plastic and its production are continually being discovered. Plastics are entangled in multiple ecological and social crises, from the plasticization of the oceans to the embeddedness of plastics in political hierarchies. The complexities surrounding the global plastic crisis require an interdisciplinary approach and the materialities of plastic demand new temporalities of thought and action. Plastic Legacies brings together scholars from the fields of marine biology, psychology, anthropology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and media studies to investigate and address the urgent socio-ecological challenges brought about by plastics. Contributors consider the unpredictable nature of plastics and weigh actionable solutions and mitigation processes against the ever-changing situation. Moving beyond policy changes, this volume offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to tackling the plastics crisis and explores how politics and communicative action are key to implementing social, cultural, and economic change. Published 2021-10-22T21:48:30Z 2021-10-22T21:48:30Z 2021-07-08 book 9781771993272 9781771993289 9781771993296 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72482 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.amazon.ca/Plastic-Legacies-Pollution-Persistence-Politics-ebook/dp/B09BSYW2FW/ https://www.aupress.ca/books/120302-plastic-legacies/ Athabasca University Press 10.15215/aupress/9781771993272.01 10.15215/aupress/9781771993272.01 6b1b8af7-79e4-4b18-b297-b983df0f073f 9781771993272 9781771993289 9781771993296 284 Canada open access
spellingShingle plastic straws
water bottles
ocean garbage patch
climate change
plastic pollution in the ocean
facts about plastic pollution
animals eating plastic
pollution
plastisphere
erosion
erosion
plastic chemicals
plastic toxins
disposable plastics
ethical consumption
ecological activism
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment
Plastic Legacies
title Plastic Legacies
title_full Plastic Legacies
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title_full_unstemmed Plastic Legacies
title_short Plastic Legacies
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topic plastic straws
water bottles
ocean garbage patch
climate change
plastic pollution in the ocean
facts about plastic pollution
animals eating plastic
pollution
plastisphere
erosion
erosion
plastic chemicals
plastic toxins
disposable plastics
ethical consumption
ecological activism
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment
topic_facet plastic straws
water bottles
ocean garbage patch
climate change
plastic pollution in the ocean
facts about plastic pollution
animals eating plastic
pollution
plastisphere
erosion
erosion
plastic chemicals
plastic toxins
disposable plastics
ethical consumption
ecological activism
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment
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