1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004060660403321

Autore

Fraia-Frangipane, Ottavio

Titolo

La Terra di San VIncenzo a Volturno / Ottavio Fraia-Frangipane ; notizie storiche edite a cura di Faustino Avagliano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montecassino : s.e., 1982 ( (Isola del Liri) : M. Pisani

Descrizione fisica

63 p. : ill. ; 26 cm

Locazione

FLFBC

FSPBC

Collocazione

B 5362

XIV O 88

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910617314303321

Autore

Sawyer Suzana <1961->

Titolo

The small matter of suing Chevron / / Suzana Sawyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-4780-1533-0

1-4780-2257-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps

Classificazione

SOC002010866HIS033000

Disciplina

345.86602450264

Soggetti

Peasants - Ecuador - Social conditions

Indigenous peoples - Ecuador - Social conditions

Environmental racism

Petroleum industry and trade - Environmental aspects - Ecuador

Petroleum industry and trade - Health aspects - Ecuador

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chemical agency : of hydrocarbons and toxicity -- Exposure's orbitals : of epidemiology and calculation -- Alchemical deals : of contracts and their seepage -- Radical inspections : of sensorium as toxic proposition -- Plurivalent rendering : of prehension becoming precaution -- Bonding veridictum : of corporate capacity and technique.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Small Matter of Suing Chevron tells the story of the infamously complex litigation revolving around the aftermath of Chevron's oil drilling in Ecuador's Lago Agrio area. Suzana Sawyer offers both an ethnographic account of the harms communities faced due to Chevron's dumping practices as well as a scientific analysis that reveals the unstable qualities of benzene, a known carcinogen found in gasoline. Sawyer provides a reformulation of chemical elements as "dynamic probabilities" instead of "definite stable substances," emphasizing that an element's behavior is contingent on its environment. Thus, she uses both literal and figurative interpretations of benzene and its properties as a way of discussing Chevron and the Lago Agrio region. The book's final section narrates and analyzes the court trials between Chevron and the nation of Ecuador. Ultimately, Sawyer highlights how business corporations, such as Chevron, claim to be morally superior agents while producing violent material consequences for communities and environments, and how these contradictions are exemplary of liberal democracy."--