Posted: June 22nd, 2015

Environmental Contamination in historical geography

Assignment 3

Write a more general review of the scholarship. You will need to read all of the scholarly articles given below.  In your essay you can tell us what the articles say, but it is much more important to discuss what they mean.

Topic: Environmental Contamination

Jeremy Bryson (2013) “Smoke space: material and imagined nature in the smelter city of Anaconda, Montana” Journal of Historical Geography April 2013 Volume 40 pp 16-23.

Oscar Morales, Jr., Sara E. Grineski and Timothy W. Collins (2012) “Structural violence and environmental injustice: the case of a
US–Mexico border chemical plant” Local Environment Vol. 17, No. 1, January 2012, 1–21.

Kate J. Darby (2012) “Lead astray: scale, environmental justice and the El Paso smelter” Local Environment Vol. 17, No. 8, September 2012, 797–814.

Essay Question for this topic:

Discuss how various forms of power (political, economic, corporate …) shape the past, present and future of places contaminated by industrial activity.