9781478016755-1478016752-Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)

Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)

ISBN-13: 9781478016755
ISBN-10: 1478016752
Author: Vincanne Adams
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 184 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781478016755
ISBN-10: 1478016752
Author: Vincanne Adams
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 184 pages

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Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) (ISBN-13: 9781478016755 and ISBN-10: 1478016752), written by authors Vincanne Adams, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2023. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.57.

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In Glyphosate and the Swirl Vincanne Adams explores the chemical glyphosate--the active ingredient in Roundup and a pervasive agricultural herbicide--as a predicament of contested science and chemically saturated life. Adams traces the history of glyphosate's invention and its multiple uses as activists, regulators, scientists, clinicians, consumers, and sick people try to determine its safety and harm. Scientific and political debates over glyphosate's toxicity are agitated into a swirl--a condition in which certainty is continually contested, divided, and multiplied. This movement replicates the chemical's movement in soils, foods, bodies, archives, labs and legislative bodies, settling in some places here and other places there, its potencies changing and altering what it touches with different scales and kinds of impact. The swirl is both an artifact of academic capitalism, activist tactics, and contested scientific facts--- and a way to capture the complexity of contemporary life with chemicals.

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