What’s due: Annotated Bibliography
Participatory challenge: Identify and photograph a neighborhood in NYC impacted by industrial facilities, evidence of plastic pollution, or another visual closely related to this week’s assigned readings.
Click to show required readingsRequired readings:
Pellow, David Naguib. “Ch.4: The Global Village Dump,” in Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice. MIT Press, 2007. 73-96. e-reserves
Click to show optional readingsMacBride, Samantha. “Ch. 5: Extended Plastics Responsibility” in Recycling Reconsidered: the Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States. MIT Press 2012. 174-215 Zotero
Optional readings:
Liboiron, Max. “Defunct Models of Pollution: Starring Oceanic Plastics and Body Burdens” Discard Studies http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/defunct-models-of-pollution-starring-oceanic-plastics-and-body-burdens/
