Publication date: 20 October 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781806551576
Number of illustrations: 47
Chemical Exposures
Toxicity in the Anthropocene
Sahra Gibbon (Editor), Emilie Glazer (Editor), Lucy Sabin (Editor), Andrew Barry (Editor)
Exposure to toxic chemicals has become common place, yet the study of both chemicals and toxicity has tended to remain at the margins of the social sciences. This volume addresses the entangled landscape of toxic chemicals in the Anthropocene, drawing together research by anthropologists, geographers, artists, and scholars in science and technology studies. The contributors understand chemical pollution as not simply pervasive, but multiple, situated and unequal, profoundly relational and affective, traversing temporal and spatial scales as it continuously disrupts and reconfigures the relations between the geological and the human, the political and the material, and between the social and natural sciences and humanities. Chemical Exposures explores the accumulation of toxic substances, the multiple scales of exposure, and the diverse ways in which exposure can be both sensed and visualised.
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Chemical Exposures
Toxicity in the Anthropocene
Publication date: October 20, 2026
Open Access PDF ISBN: 9781806551576
Paperback ISBN: 9781806551569
Hardback ISBN: 9781806551552
Trim size (hardback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
Trim size (paperback): 23.4cm x 15.6cm
Exposure to toxic chemicals has become common place, yet the study of both chemicals and toxicity has tended to remain at the margins of the social sciences. This volume addresses the entangled landscape of toxic chemicals in the Anthropocene, drawing together research by anthropologists, geographers, artists, and scholars in science and technology studies. The contributors understand chemical pollution as not simply pervasive, but multiple, situated and unequal, profoundly relational and affective, traversing temporal and spatial scales as it continuously disrupts and reconfigures the relations between the geological and the human, the political and the material, and between the social and natural sciences and humanities. Chemical Exposures explores the accumulation of toxic substances, the multiple scales of exposure, and the diverse ways in which exposure can be both sensed and visualised.
