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Week 03: Plastics, from Texas to Taiwan

Week 03: Plastics, from Texas to Taiwan

APRIL 29, 2021

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"Pellets discovered and sampled at Cox Creek near Formosa outfall 06", 2019, courtesy of Diane Wilson, nomorenurdles.org .

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You can chose one of the episodes below, or watch both if you like to.

Watch a) : Dirty Money. (2020). Point Comfort. 60 min ( Netflix )

Watch b): Our Island 我們的島. (2019) Petrochemical Kingdom on the Sea: The Sixth Naphtha Cracker Complex 六輕 海上石化王國. 25 min. Taiwan.  ( YouTube )

Diverged

Read: Fortun K. (2009). Environmental right-to-know and the transmutations of law. In Catastrophe: Law, Politics and the Humanitarian Impulse , edited by Austin Sarat. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ( link )

OVERFLOW

Huang, H., & Chen, C. L. (2018). Displaying and interpreting industrial pollution. The Future of Museum and Gallery Design: Purpose, Process, Perception . ( link )

Jobin, P. (2021). “Environmental Movements in Taiwan: a Civic Eco-Nationalism”, in Environmental Movements and Politics of the Asian Anthropocene (ed. by Paul Jobin, Ming-sho Ho and Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao), Singapore: ISEAS, pp.37-79. ( link )

Mah, A. (2021). Future-proofing capitalism: The paradox of the circular economy for plastics. Global Environmental Politics, 1-22. ( link )

Key Concept

right-to-know

Assignment

1. write four annotations (two each) responding to the structured fielnotes and civic data capacity analytic .

2. try to find coverage by media, NGO and environmental groups for your case study and add them to your sketchbook (sketch no. 6).

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Transcript: Point Comfort, Dirty Money

[dog yipping] [man 1] Southeast wind. [camera snaps] -[man 1] You watch for the gator. -[man 2] Yeah, I'll watch. [camera clicking] [man 1] I'm gonna use my hand. They're all in here. Right here. These aren't rocks. They're pellets. [man 3] It was a job. Good money. It's all about money.... Read more

Petrochemical Kingdom on the Sea: The Sixth Naphtha Cracker Complex 六輕 海上石化王國

Petrochemical Kingdom on the Sea: The Sixth Naphtha Cracker Complex 六輕 海上石化王國

我們的島 穿梭島嶼20年-汙染開發篇 六輕 海上石化王國(第988集 2019-01-14)

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Transcript: Petrochemical Kingdom on the Sea: The Sixth Naptha Cracker Complex

In 1998, a petrochemical kingdom was born offshore of Yunlin Mailiao. 6th Naphtha is the No. 6 Naphtha Cracker Complex and the largest carbon emitter in Taiwan. Its land reclamation scale has set a world record and changed the landscape of the coast. Each year, it brings a trillion-dollar ... Read more