Homesick
Collection
Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)Language
EnglishAbstract
Nicholas Shapiro examines the US government's distribution of over 120,000 toxic trailers following Hurricane Katrina, their devastating health effects, and the need to create new forms of accountability and change.
Keywords
Environmental justice; toxic exposures; Gulf Coast; Hurricane Katrina; Low-income housing; building materials; Emergency Housing; Toxic Exposure; Formaldehyde; Hurricane Rita; FEMA; Domestic architecture; chemical exposure; statecraft; New Car Smell; Chemical perception; Affect; Sublime; ATSDR; mass tort litigation; DIY air purification systems; Alter-engineering; grassroots interventions; radical changeISBN
9781478094357, 9781478029076, 9781478032441, 9781478061298Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
http://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham, North Carolina USA, 2025Grantor
Imprint
Duke University Press BooksSeries
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography,Classification
Social and cultural anthropology
Environmental science, engineering and technology
Pages
257
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described
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open access