Global EnvironmentPub Date : 2024-06-08DOI: 10.3828/whpge.63837646622493
Eve Bureau-Point, J. Venot, Sreytouch Heourn
{"title":"Tailor-Made Pesticides. Understanding the Pesticides Market in a Productive Agricultural Region of the Cambodian Mekong Delta","authors":"Eve Bureau-Point, J. Venot, Sreytouch Heourn","doi":"10.3828/whpge.63837646622493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/whpge.63837646622493","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws on approaches in the anthropology of things and the anthropology of capitalism. It brings to light fragments of the supply chains of pesticides in one of the most productive agricultural regions in Cambodia. Based on an ethnographic study conducted from November 2021 to December 2022 with farmers, petty retailers and marketing agents enrolled in the pesticides sector, this article shows how a study of local interactions between pesticides and these actors brings out multi-level data, ranging from the local marketing strategies to transnational manufacturing of pesticides. It highlights various stages that are taking place between small-scale farmers and industrial players to redefine tailor-made pesticides and fuel the local market.\u0000 \u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141368721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global EnvironmentPub Date : 2024-06-08DOI: 10.3828/whpge.63837646622497
Thilo Mokros
{"title":"‘Field Pieces’ (‘Ackerstücke’) and ‘Transects’ (‘Transekte’). Two Photographic Attempts to Capture Biodiversity in Agricultural Crop Land","authors":"Thilo Mokros","doi":"10.3828/whpge.63837646622497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/whpge.63837646622497","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141368914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global EnvironmentPub Date : 2024-06-08DOI: 10.3828/whpge.63837646622492
Anu Krishna
{"title":"Tales Behind a Spice: Toxified Terrain and Tortured Bodies in the Making of Indian Small Cardamom","authors":"Anu Krishna","doi":"10.3828/whpge.63837646622492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/whpge.63837646622492","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the convergence of pesticide toxicity with caste inequalities and the lingering legacies of colonialism on cardamom plantations in the Cardamom Hills, India. Known for its fragrance and flavour, Indian small cardamom (\u0000 Elettaria cardamomum\u0000 ) is the third most expensive spice on the international market. The mystic allure that is attributed to cardamom by the spice industry conceals how it is produced on a toxified terrain and by labouring female bodies tortured by toxic chemicals, marshalled through an exploitative socioeconomic system. This article brings the literature on toxicity in conversation with the epistemologies of the concept of the Plantationocene in order to explain the toxic worldings inside twenty-first-century plantations. In doing so, the article argues that pesticide toxicity should be read in the light of colonialism, social inequalities and the disparities in global regulations on pesticide production, trade and consumption.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141369721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global EnvironmentPub Date : 2024-06-08DOI: 10.3828/whpge.63837646622491
Amy M. Hay
{"title":"Dumping in the Global Dixie: Circle of Poison and the Contamination of the Global South","authors":"Amy M. Hay","doi":"10.3828/whpge.63837646622491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/whpge.63837646622491","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The 1981 publication of David Weir and Mark Shapiro’s exposé\u0000 Circle of Poison\u0000 almost ten years after the banning of DDT represented how the landscape of understandings about hazardous chemicals and their regulation had changed. The book exposed two things. One was the ways power had reconfigured itself, which in turn highlighted the ways the story\u0000 Silent Spring\u0000 told, which effectively moved hearts and minds to make change happen. One thing that remained hidden, however, to both Rachel Carson and Weir and Shapiro, was the degree to which the chemical industry traded at the local and regional level, conducting international trade, emulating the poor and often bad faith practices of the transnational corporations. The failure of\u0000 Circle\u0000 ’s narrative, coupled with an overlooked and extensive network of mom-and-pop chemical companies, failed to build on\u0000 Silent Spring\u0000 ’s legacy.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141370777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global EnvironmentPub Date : 2024-06-08DOI: 10.3828/whpge.63837646622498
José Augusto Pádua
{"title":"Notes from the Icehouse: Facing Environmental Denialism: Lessons from the Bolsonaro Nightmare","authors":"José Augusto Pádua","doi":"10.3828/whpge.63837646622498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/whpge.63837646622498","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141368310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global EnvironmentPub Date : 2024-06-08DOI: 10.3828/whpge.63837646622494
Bleuen Merrer, François Dedieu, Céline Pessis, Christophe Bonneuil
{"title":"Safer than in the USA? The Reception of\u0000 Silent Spring\u0000 in France and the Difficulties in Achieving European Regulations on Pesticides, 1962–1976","authors":"Bleuen Merrer, François Dedieu, Céline Pessis, Christophe Bonneuil","doi":"10.3828/whpge.63837646622494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/whpge.63837646622494","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 From having been a net food importer before World War Two, France rapidly became a leading European agricultural producer and the world’s second largest agricultural exporter – a model fueled by extensive use of pesticides. How, then, was the French reception of Rachel Carson’s work on the association of pesticides with health issues and environmental damage? This article constructed a corpus of 288 publications debating\u0000 Silent Spring\u0000 from 1962 to 1975 to map the trajectory of the controversy. We also mobilise rich archives collections to document how key actors and institutions endeavoured to control the fire sparked by\u0000 Printemps silencieux\u0000 and slow down the progress of new Europe-wide regulations. Lastly, we illuminate how, by 1969–1976, export imperatives and associated market-harmonisation concerns were factors as important as environment and health concerns for explaining the ban of a few molecules and the first 1976 EEC Directive regulating residues levels.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 This article was published open access under a CC BY licence:\u0000 https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0\u0000 .\u0000","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141368506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}