04224nam 2200769 a 450 991045920080332120200520144314.01-282-67903-197866126790320-226-25718-510.7208/9780226257181(CKB)2670000000033493(EBL)557564(OCoLC)648760697(SSID)ssj0000411355(PQKBManifestationID)12172000(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411355(PQKBWorkID)10355986(PQKB)10044865(SSID)ssj0000456740(PQKBManifestationID)12148446(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000456740(PQKBWorkID)10410334(PQKB)11662727(MiAaPQ)EBC557564(DE-B1597)523202(OCoLC)1135610401(DE-B1597)9780226257181(Au-PeEL)EBL557564(CaPaEBR)ebr10402616(CaONFJC)MIL267903(EXLCZ)99267000000003349320000906d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAdvocacy after Bhopal[electronic resource] environmentalism, disaster, new global orders /Kim FortunChicago University of Chicago Pressc20011 online resource (436 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-25719-3 0-226-25720-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-401) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE: THE TIMES -- INTRODUCTION. Advocacy, Ethnography, and Complex Systems -- ONE. Plaintive Response -- TWO. Happening Here -- THREE. Union Carbide, Having a Hand in Things -- FOUR. Working Perspectives -- FIVE. States of India -- SIX. Situational Particularities -- SEVEN. Opposing India -- EIGHT. Women's Movements -- NINE. Anarchism and Its Discontents -- TEN. Communities Concerned about Corporations -- ELEVEN. Green Consulting -- EPILOGUE -- ApPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEXThe 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."Disaster victimsServices forEnvironmental policyCitizen participationSocial responsibility of businessEnvironmental aspectsBhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984Disaster reliefIndiaCase studiesElectronic books.Disaster victimsServices for.Environmental policyCitizen participation.Social responsibility of businessEnvironmental aspects.Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984.Disaster relief363.7/058/0954Fortun Kim887060MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459200803321Advocacy after Bhopal1980901UNINA