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THE 2016 FORMOSA INCIDENT TIMELINE

The incident first happened on April 4th, 2016 by a large amount of unnatural dead sea fish washed up on the Vung Ang seashore (Ha Tinh province) near the Formosa Ha Tinh Steel plant.

Formosa Vietnam Movement

Image by Justice for Formosa Victims, 2019.

Conflictual Collaboration: Citizen Science and the Governance of Radioactive Contamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessm

Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its release of radioac- tive contamination, the Japanese state put into motion risk communica- tion strategies to explain the danger of radiation e

What have you learned about anthropocenics in this place?

AllanaRoss

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QUOTIDIAN ANTHROPOCENES: NEW ORLEANS

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What have you learned about anthropocenics in this place?

My interests center around soil--its preservation, regeneration, and remediation. Living farther up North on the Mississippi in Saint Louis has changed my thinking around the relationships between soil, water, and contamination. Saint Louis and New Orleans are linked not just through their shared river and its attendant water management issues, but through patterns of extraction and contamination. New Orleans may also provide some clues (and potential solutions) to my community's changing relationship with water as we confront climate change. My work as an artist explores our relationship with landscape through tours of contaminated sites and remediative interventions in the landscape, so I approach New Orleans with questions about contaminated environments and water management through landscape design, gardening, and education.

West Lake Landfill

AllanaRoss

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Land Use Scales and Systems Questions

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DATA: How & what kind of data is being produced, visualized, inscribed, authorized, disseminated, and mobilized to shape future land use? What data infrastructures have been developed, are being developed, or are perceived as necessary for land managment?

Most of the citizen-produced data is discounted by officials. There is little authorized data, though data has been collected and can be found with some effort. Dissemination of information is on a grassroots level. PRPs have been engaged in misinformation campaigns as well, creating organizations with misleading names who advertise on the radio and distribute flyers.

West Lake Landfill

AllanaRoss

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Land Use Scales and Systems Questions

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TECHNO: How does technology enable particular kinds of land use? What technologies are used to produce data about the setting and its use?

Monitoring. Decisions from the EPA about 'safe' levels of radiation exposure.

West Lake Landfill

AllanaRoss

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Land Use Scales and Systems Questions

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BIO: How are bodies (human and non-human) in this setting differentially impacted by current and historical forms of land tenure, management, and use? How are these embodied inequalities naturalized, racialized, homogenized, erased, and/or politicized?

Cancer cluster. Not racialized in this particular area so much as class-based. Bridgeton is a working-class, mostly white suburb. The neighborhood closest to the landfill is a mobile home park.