LEADER 03418nam 22005055 450 001 996647827803316 005 20250705110026.0 010 $a9781478093671 010 $a1478093676 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478093671 035 $a(CKB)5860000000552846 035 $a(DE-B1597)732993 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478093671 035 $a(ODN)ODN0010204383 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000552846 100 $a20250320h20232023 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPetrochemical Planet $eMultiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation /$fAlice Mah 210 $d2023 210 1$aDurham : $cDuke University Press, $d[2023] 210 4$d2023 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAbbreviations -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 The Petrochemical Game of War -- $t2 Enduring Toxic Injustice and Fenceline Mobilizations -- $t3 Multiscalar Activism and Petrochemical Proliferation -- $t4 The Competing Stakes of the Planetary Petrochemical Crisis -- $t5 Petrochemical Degrowth, Decarbonization, and Just Transformations -- $t6 Toward an Alternative Planetary Petrochemical Politics -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Petrochemical Planet Alice Mah examines the changing nature of the petrochemical industry as it faces the existential threats of climate change and environmental activism. Drawing on research from high-level industry meetings, petrochemical plant tours, and polluted communities, Mah juxtaposes the petrochemical industry?s destructive corporate worldviews with environmental justice struggles in the United States, China, and Europe. She argues that amid intensifying public pressures, a profound planetary industrial transformation is underway that is challenging the reigning age of plastics and fossil fuels. This challenge comes from what Mah calls multiscalar activism?a form of collective resistance that spans local, regional, national, and planetary sites and scales and addresses the interconnected issues of environmental justice, climate, pollution, health, extraction, land rights, workers? rights, systemic racism, and toxic colonialism. Reflecting on the obstacles and openings for critical interventions in the petrochemical industry, Mah offers important insights into the possibilities for resistance and for developing alternatives to the reliance on fossil fuels. 606 $aEnvironmental justice$2DLC 606 $aEnvironmental protection$xInternational cooperation$2DLC 606 $aPetroleum chemicals industry$xEnvironmental aspects$2DLC 606 $aNATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection$2bisacsh 615 0$aEnvironmental justice. 615 0$aEnvironmental protection$xInternational cooperation. 615 0$aPetroleum chemicals industry$xEnvironmental aspects. 615 7$aNATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. 686 $aNAT011000$aSOC002010$aSOC026000$2bisacsh 700 $aMah$b Alice, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01429654 712 02$aUniversity of Warwick$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996647827803316 996 $aPetrochemical planet$93568784 997 $aUNISA