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The Midwife and the PoetBioaccumulation and Retroactive Shock

The Midwife and the PoetBioaccumulation and Retroactive Shock Triangulating narratives from a prospective mining site in northern Norway, this article works to identify (and render graspable) a particular effect of retroactive shock—tracing its resonance through experiences of chemical exposure, colonial racism, cultural erasure, and destruction of the built environment. Linking these experiences, the argument sets up and explores an analytical space within which the toxic modernity of planetary capitalism can resonate, structurally, with the racist violence of state colonialism: a space that also, the author suggests, describes an important dimension of Anthropocene experience itself. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environmental Humanities Duke University Press

The Midwife and the PoetBioaccumulation and Retroactive Shock

Environmental Humanities , Volume 11 (1) – May 1, 2019

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Copyright
© 2019 Hugo Reinert
ISSN
2201-1919
eISSN
2201-1919
DOI
10.1215/22011919-7349455
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Abstract

Triangulating narratives from a prospective mining site in northern Norway, this article works to identify (and render graspable) a particular effect of retroactive shock—tracing its resonance through experiences of chemical exposure, colonial racism, cultural erasure, and destruction of the built environment. Linking these experiences, the argument sets up and explores an analytical space within which the toxic modernity of planetary capitalism can resonate, structurally, with the racist violence of state colonialism: a space that also, the author suggests, describes an important dimension of Anthropocene experience itself.

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Environmental HumanitiesDuke University Press

Published: May 1, 2019

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