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Abstract

This study examines how living with unsafe and degrading infrastructures leading to lead poisoning in Southern California is an embodied experience mediated by class, race, and late industrialism.

Competing Hegemonies

Competing hegemonic discourses on lead risk and poisoning in SoCal.

Core Analytical Categories

“Risk” - a term that is used by multiple actors in my fieldsite; public health officials, environmental scientists, school board members and parents all use this term when referring to lead p

Designating Late Industrialism

This document charts the ways this project develops our understandings of late industrialism, and in turn, how late industrialism, as an analytic, increases our understanding of lead poisoning.

History of Water and Lead in CA

This document is a brief history of statewide water management as well as national and CA state lead policies.

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New Switching Station in Newark in Direct Response Form Hurricane Sandy

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What forms of precaution were exercised regarding the hazard(s)?

A new 'switching site' was build to ensure less people would lose power in a disasterous storm like Hurricane Sandy.

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The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy

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What vulnerabilities affect the community?

The Jersey shore especially was vulnerable to a storm of this capcity, and showed how unprepared for the storm they were after the clouds settled. The boardwalk itself was obliterated and homes and roads were floodded. In New York, most train tranporttaion was halted as many of the lines had to undergo maintenance to bring it back to operating status.

Lead Risk