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Formosa and Whitney Plantation: Lawsuits

Documents track legal challenges to Formosa's planned facility.

Formosa Plastics and Whitney Plantation: EPA

Essay details the EPA's role in compliance with Formosa's attempt to build the proposed facility. Articles detail community meetings with EPA members, and an EIS investigation of Formosa.

Plantations History Whitney

This collection offers detailed history and personal accounts of Whitney plantation, giving context to Formosa's attempts to purchase the land as well as providing critical commentary to these atte

Formosa Plastics and Whitney: Fraud

This collection of news articles details the fraudulent activity of local officials in connection to Formosa, detailing the trial proceedings and findings.

Formosa Plastics and Whitney: General Information

This selection of news articles tracks criticisms from local residents to the zoning and construction of the proposed Formosa facility.

Formosa Plastics and Whitney Plantation: Miscellaneous

Formosa Plastics Zoning in Wallace, Louisiana

This essay includes commentary and news articles about Formosa Plastics's industrial rezoning of the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana.

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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Miriam Ticktin is an associate professor of anthropology at The New School for Social Research, as well as the Co-Director of Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility. This indicates that she writes this article from an anthropologic perspective rather than with a biological or political viewpoint.