Toxic Avoidance

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI:10.1215/08992363-10742523

Emmanuel Henry

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Abstract

Abstract If the words “our product is doubt” characterize the production of ignorance, in turn, the production of nonproblem could be encapsulated by “our product is silence.” This article looks behind both these words and this concept of nonproblems, drawing attention to public policy mechanisms whose effect (whether explicitly intended or not) is to reduce the attention paid to a given problem, resulting in public inaction, not taking charge of a problem. It highlights the role in those dynamics of two factors: the scientific instruments attempting to quantify environmental and occupational health issues and the regulatory instruments used in the field of the regulation of chemicals. Downstream of these regulatory processes, the use of science-based regulatory instruments implicitly steers regulatory policies in a direction that results in tolerance of certain risks (rendering them acceptable) and can lead to forms of public inaction.

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避免有毒

如果说“我们的产品是怀疑”是无知的产物，那么“无问题”的产物则可以概括为“我们的产品是沉默”。本文将探究这些词语和“无问题”概念的背后，并将注意力吸引到公共政策机制上，这些机制的效果(无论是否明确有意)是减少对给定问题的关注，导致公共不作为，不负责解决问题。它强调了两个因素在这些动态中的作用:试图量化环境和职业健康问题的科学工具和化学品管制领域使用的管制工具。在这些监管过程的下游，以科学为基础的监管工具的使用隐含地将监管政策引向容忍某些风险(使其成为可接受的)的方向，并可能导致各种形式的公众不作为。

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来源期刊

Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.