Toxic Heritage Legacies, Futures, and Environmental Injustice

Toxic Heritage: An Introduction

ELIZABETH KRYDER-REID AND SARAH MAY

SECTION 1: Introduction: Framing Toxicity

1 Toxic Legacies of Slickens in California: A Mobile Heritage of Hydraulic Mining Debris

GARETH HOSKINS

Visual Essay 1: Extraction Old and New: Toxic Legacies of Mining the Desert in Southwestern Africa

MIKE HANNIS AND SIAN SULLIVAN

2 Of Blaes and Bings: The (Non)toxic Heritage of the West Lothian Oil Shale Industry

JONATHAN GARDNER

3 When Toxic Heritage is Forever: Confronting PFAS Contamination and Toxicity as Lived Experience

THOMAS W. PEARSON AND DANIEL RENFREW

4 Plasticity and Time: Using the Stress-Strain Curve as a Framework for Investigating the Wicked Problems of Marine Pollution and Climate Change

JOHN SCHOFIELD AND CELMARA POCOCK

SECTION 2: Introduction: The Politics of Toxic Heritage

5 Heritage-Led Regeneration and the Sanitisation of Memory in the Lower Swansea Valley

SARAH MAY

Case Study 1: Ghost Wrecks of the Anthropocene: An Enduring Toxic Legacy of the Pacific War

MATTHEW CARTER, ASHLEY MEREDITH, AUGUSTINE C. KOHLER, RANGER WALTER,

BILL JEFFERY, AND PAUL HEERSINK

6 Military Legacies and Indigenous Heritage in Canada’s Newest National Park Reserve

LISA K. RANKIN, JULIA BRENAN, DAVID M. FINCH, SCOTT NEILSEN, AND ANATOLIJS VENOVCEVS

Case Study 2: Trash Fires as Toxic Heritage in Palestine

SOPHIA STAMATOPOULOU-ROBBINS

7 Politics of Mining: Toxic Heritage in the Atacama Desert

MARINA WEINBERG AND VALENTINA FIGUEROA

Case Study 3: Sticky, Stinky, Squalid: The Toxic Leachate of Households’ Waste in an Area of Urban Decay in Tehran (Iran)

LEILA PAPOLI-YAZDI

8 Toxic Landmarking and Technoprecarious Heritage in Ghana

PETER CARSKADON LITTLE AND GRACE ABENA AKESE

SECTION 3 Introduction: Affected Communities, Activism,

and Agency

9 Reluctant Returns: Repatriating a Poisoned Past

HOLLY CUSACK-MCVEIGH

Case Study 4: Public Memory of Toxic Displacement: Heavy Metal Contamination and Superfund Remediation in Federally Assisted Housing Communities

ELIZABETH GRENNAN BROWNING

Visual Essay 2: Translating and Transforming Toxicity: Moving Between Ethnography and Graphic Art

AMELIA FISKE AND JONAS FISCHER

10 Preservation by Demolition: Toxic Heritage in Contemporary China

LORETTA I.T. LOU

11 Unwanted Legacy and Memory of the Milieu: Toxic Materials, Remediation, Habituation (Estarreja, Portugal)

FABIENNE WATEAU, CARMEM REGINA GIONGO, DANIELA FIGUEIREDO, JOHNNY REIS, AND MANUELLE LAGO

12 Environmental and Embodied Agro-Toxic Heritage in Rural Uruguay: From Recognition to Transition to Sustainability Among Dairy Farmers

VICTORIA EVIA, SANTIAGO ALZUGARAY, AND JAVIER TAKS

SECTION 4 Introduction: Narratives of Toxic Heritage

13 Dirty Laundry: The Toxic Heritage of Dry Cleaning in Indianapolis, Indiana

ELIZABETH KRYDER-REID, OWEN DWYER, AND GABRIEL FILIPPELLI

Case Study 5: When Cleaning up the Battlefields from When Times of War Have Polluted Soils in Times of Peace: A Case Study of a Silent but Visible Toxic Legacy from the Great War

DANIEL HUBÉ AND TOBIAS BAUSINGER

14 Toxic City: Industrial Residues, the Body and Community Activism as Heritage Practice in Glasgow

ARTHUR MCIVOR

Case Study 6: Rubber as (Toxic) Heritage: Amazonian Knowledge and the Rubber Industry

TIAGO SILVA ALVES MUNIZ

Case Study 7: Three Memory Frameworks on Chernobyl

MATTEO BENUSSI

15 The Toxic Anthracite = Toxic Heritage

PAUL A. SHACKEL

SECTION 5 Introduction: Approaches and Interventions

16 Environmental Justice Tours: Transformative Narratives of Struggle, Solidarity, and Activism

ANA ISABEL BAPTISTA

Visual Essay 3: Getting the Lead Out, One Community at a Time

GABRIEL FILIPPELLI

Case Study 8: Climate Museum UK: Practices in Response to the Traumasphere

BRIDGET MCKENZIE

17 Toxic Heritage and Reparations: Activating Memory for Environmental and Climate Justice

LIZ ŠEVČENKO         

Case Study 9: From Leftovers to Takeover: Latent Insurgency Amidst the System’s Remnants

ANA VALDERRAMA

Visual Essay 4: Taking Care of Nuclear Waste

CORNELIUS HOLTORF

18 Toxic and Wasted: Artists Thinking About How to Engage With Material Futures

ROSEMARY A. JOYCE

Conclusion: Why Toxic Heritage Matters

ELIZABETH KRYDER-REID AND SARAH MAY

Index

Biography

Elizabeth Kryder-Reid is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies and director of the Cultural Heritage Research Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis.

Sarah May is a Senior Consultant in Cultural Heritage at the sustainable development consultancy, Arup.