LEADER 04549nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910785046503321 005 20230207213515.0 010 $a1-282-67903-1 010 $a9786612679032 010 $a0-226-25718-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226257181 035 $a(CKB)2670000000033493 035 $a(EBL)557564 035 $a(OCoLC)648760697 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411355 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12172000 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411355 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10355986 035 $a(PQKB)10044865 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000456740 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12148446 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000456740 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10410334 035 $a(PQKB)11662727 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC557564 035 $a(DE-B1597)523202 035 $a(OCoLC)1135610401 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226257181 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL557564 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10402616 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL267903 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000033493 100 $a20000906d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAdvocacy after Bhopal$b[electronic resource] $eenvironmentalism, disaster, new global orders /$fKim Fortun 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (436 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-25719-3 311 $a0-226-25720-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [385]-401) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tFIGURES -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tPROLOGUE: THE TIMES -- $tINTRODUCTION. Advocacy, Ethnography, and Complex Systems -- $tONE. Plaintive Response -- $tTWO. Happening Here -- $tTHREE. Union Carbide, Having a Hand in Things -- $tFOUR. Working Perspectives -- $tFIVE. States of India -- $tSIX. Situational Particularities -- $tSEVEN. Opposing India -- $tEIGHT. Women's Movements -- $tNINE. Anarchism and Its Discontents -- $tTEN. Communities Concerned about Corporations -- $tELEVEN. Green Consulting -- $tEPILOGUE -- $tApPENDIX -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aThe 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." 606 $aDisaster victims$xServices for 606 $aEnvironmental policy$xCitizen participation 606 $aSocial responsibility of business$xEnvironmental aspects 606 $aBhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984 606 $aDisaster relief$zIndia$vCase studies 610 $aadvocate, activist, activism, environment, environmentalist, environmentalism, disaster, problem, global, science, scientific, history, historical, india, southeast, asia, litigation, legal, technology, technological, risk, dangerous, globalization, power, justice, victim, ethnography, plaintive, union, womens movement, community, culture. 615 0$aDisaster victims$xServices for. 615 0$aEnvironmental policy$xCitizen participation. 615 0$aSocial responsibility of business$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 0$aBhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984. 615 0$aDisaster relief 676 $a363.7/058/0954 700 $aFortun$b Kim$01469345 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785046503321 996 $aAdvocacy after Bhopal$93680804 997 $aUNINA