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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.

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.

Chicken Wire

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.

Poisoned Bees

This object will be used in the 'Writing Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene' workshop and is displayed in Drexel's Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene.