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Book Title
Small Matter of Suing Chevron
ISBN
9781478017950
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
1478017953
ISBN-13
9781478017950
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8050101541

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
416 Pages
Publication Name
Small Matter of Suing Chevron
Language
English
Subject
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Economics / General, Latin America / South America
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Science, Business & Economics, History
Author
Suzana Sawyer
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2021-036600
Reviews
A monumental book. . . . An innovative study at the interface of law, health, and the environment, The Small Matter of Suing Chevron will appeal to anthropologists of all stripes, as well as legal scholars, epidemiologists, and those working in the environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and Latin American contexts. As global toxics threaten to resign us all to irredeemable loss, Sawyer's masterful ethnography demonstrates how it is still both possible and necessary to take a stand against corporate power and judicial imperialism., "Powerfully written, methodologically innovative, and intricately and deeply researched, The Small Matter of Suing Chevron is a rewarding provocation for all readers interested in the ways activism, law, and science contend over the injuries of toxic harm."--Carol J. Greenhouse, author of The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States, This book is a valuable addition to work at the critical intersection of law and environmental studies, and essential reading for scholars concerned with energy politics in Latin America. It is best suited for upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate seminars.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
345.86602450264
Table Of Content
Time Line Acknowledgments Fraud Opening: Crude's Valence of Truths I. Dissociating Bonds Hearing 1. Chemical Agency: Of Hydrocarbons and Toxicity Inspection 2. Exposure's Orbitals: Of Epidemiology and Calculation Death II. Spectral Radicals Catch 3. Alchemical Deals: Of Contracts and Their Seepage Clandestine 4. Radical Inspections: Of Sensorium as Toxic Proposition Kuankuan III. Delocalized Stabilities CEO 5. Plurivalent Rendering: Of Prehension Becoming Precaution Never 6. Bonding Veredictum: Of Corporate Capacity and Technique Tethered Derision Metamorphic Reprise: Valence in the Mixt Amisacho Notes References Index
Synopsis
In 2011, an Ecuadorian court issued the world's largest environmental contamination liability: a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron. Within years, a US federal court and an international tribunal determined that the Ecuadorian judgment had been procured through fraud and was unenforceable. In The Small Matter of Suing Chevron Suzana Sawyer delves into this legal trilogy to explore how distinct legal truths were relationally composed of, with, and through crude oil. In Sawyer's analysis, chemistry proves crucial. Analytically, it affords a grammar for appreciating how molecular, technical, and legal agencies catalyzed distinct jurisdictional renderings. Empirically, the chemistry of hydrocarbons (its complexity, unfathomability, and misattribution) significantly shaped competing judicial determinations. Ultimately, chemical, scientific, contractual, and litigating techniques precipitated this legal saga's metamorphic transformation, transmuting a contamination claim into an environmental liability, then a racketeering scheme, and then a breach of treaty. Holding the paradoxes of complicity in suspension, Sawyer deftly demonstrates how crude matters, technoscience, and liberal legality configure how risk and reward, deprivation and disavowal, suffering and surfeit become legally and unevenly distributed., Suzana Sawyer traces Ecuador's lawsuit against the Chevron corporation for the environmental devastation resulting from its oil drilling practices, showing how distinct legal truths were relationally composed of, with, and through crude oil.
LC Classification Number
HD1531.E2S29 2022

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