EiJ Hazard: PFAS
FOR ECOGOVLAB/CCEJP CURRICULUM: Use this as a research resource during 11th and 12th Grade Lesson 2 on Hazards.
FOR ECOGOVLAB/CCEJP CURRICULUM: Use this as a research resource during 11th and 12th Grade Lesson 2 on Hazards.
The Formosa Plastics Archive (FPA) (台灣塑膠檔案館) documents environmental disaster caused by one of the world's largest petrochemical companies.
I hope to be involved in projects that aim to gather scientific evidence to inform environmental decision making and advocate for greater equity and justice in environmental governance. Through this work, I hope to learn the skills needed to engage in community based research and leverage community knowledge as expert knowledge. In my department, things are often siloed and issues are only seen through one perspective. I really want to gain more experience in collaborating with a wide array of stakeholders to come up with approaches to mitigate the environmental injustices experienced in under-resourced communities.
This collection documents the early protests against Formosa Plastics petrochemical development in Yilan County (see also Ho 2014
Composing a timeline for this project has allowed for the constant iteration of industrial aesthetics to bubble to the surface.
Here, diachronic and synchronic timelines allow us to unlayer the interwedged leaves of time that often inform anthropological analysis.
A GoogleDoc link to a bibliogrpahy about PFAS in Santa Ana and community-led responses