Toxic Matters Staci Frenes Critical issues

Critical issues

Smith explores topics that include Orientalism

In this gripping companion to his acclaimed "The Battalion"

analysis of specific transnational crimes

and how animals could reveal the limits and possibilities of visual representation

Toxic Matters Staci Frenes Critical issuesIn Toxic Matters, Monica Seger considers two Italian environmental disasters: an isolated factory explosion in Seveso, just north of Milan, in 1976 and the ongoing daily toxic emissions from the Ilva steelworks in the Apulian city of Taranto. Both have exposed residents to high concentrations of the persistent organic pollutant known as dioxin. Although different in terms of geography and temporality, Seveso and Taranto are deeply united by this