A new critical social science research agenda on pesticides

B Mansfield, M Werner, C Berndt, A Shattuck… - Agriculture and Human …, 2024 - Springer
The global pesticide complex has transformed over the past two decades, but social science
research has not kept pace. The rise of an enormous generics sector, shifts in geographies …

The inhumanities

K Yusoff - Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article proposes the inhumanities as an analytic to address the material confluences of
race and environment in the epistemic construction of the humanities and social sciences …

Geographies of production III: Global production in/through nature

M Werner - Progress in Human Geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This report draws upon political ecology and nature–society geography to examine the
production network–nature nexus. Indebted to these approaches, a growing number of …

[HTML][HTML] A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives

L Argüelles, H March - Journal of Rural Studies, 2023 - Elsevier
Demands for drastically reducing pesticide use call for different perspectives and narratives
that can open new understandings of pesticide use and enact new action plans …

Toxic sights: The spectacle of hazardous waste removal

A Balayannis - Environment and Planning D: Society and …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper examines the geographies of hazardous waste removal. Over the past decade,
studies of disposal have demonstrated the myriad ways in which things can never disappear …

Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism

W Conroy - Environment and planning A: economy and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Nancy Fraser's recent work on the hidden abodes of capitalism has quickly become a critical
point of reference for those concerned with the racialized, gendered, and ecological …

“The Fabric of Our Lives”?: Cotton, pesticides, and agrarian racial regimes in the US South

B Williams - Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines the shifting ways in which the dispossessive and toxic effects of
agricultural chemicals have been encoded as agrarian best practices. I develop the concept …

Chemical agents: the biopolitical science of toxicity

M Packer - Environment and Society, 2021 - berghahnjournals.com
This article reviews interdisciplinary toxicity literature, building from Gerald E. Markowitz and
David Rosner's “deceit and denial” and Phil Brown's “contested illnesses” to argue for a …

Methodological reflections on geographies of blackness

A Bledsoe - Progress in Human Geography, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article argues that work on geographies of Blackness and Black Geographies
emphasizes different aspects of Black experiences and relies on different methodologies in …

Toward “total freedom”: Black ecologies of land, labor, and livelihoods in the Mississippi Delta

C Freshour, B Williams - Annals of the American Association of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We ground this article in the uneven geographies of the Mississippi Delta, a region
constructed at the intersection of agro-environmental racism and plantation violence …