Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2011
Keywords
Risk, Evidence, Place, Epistemology, Waste, Science And Technology
Abstract
I offer a counterpoint to the prevailing risk literature that focuses not on (mis)perceptions of danger but on the production and circulation of different forms of evidence and the environmental claims they promote. Rather than reproduce the epistemic dichotomies associated with risk discourse, I discuss attempts by waste-industry technicians, government inspectors, lawyers, area residents, and activists to generate persuasive accounts of a large, U.S. landfill and its porous boundaries. I argue that the differential influence of their various claims is best understood by examining what it means to know and care for a place.
Publisher Attribution
Reno, J. (2011). Beyond risk: Emplacement and the production of environmental evidence. American Ethnologist, 38(3), 516-530.
Recommended Citation
Reno, Joshua, "Beyond risk: Emplacement and the production of environmental evidence " (2011). Anthropology Faculty Scholarship. 6.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/anthropology_fac/6