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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction: Our Plastic Inheritance
  4. Part I Pollution
    1. 1. Marine Litter: Are There Solutions to This Global Environmental Problem?
    2. 2. Slow Violence: The Erosion of Marine Plastic Debris and of Human Health
    3. 3. How Seabirds and Indigenous Science Illustrate the Legacies of Plastics Pollution
    4. 4. Dawn of the Plastisphere: An Experiment with Unpredictable Effects
  5. Part II Persistence
    1. 5. Plastiglomerate: Plastics, Geology, and the New Materialism of the Anthropocene
    2. 6. Dressed in Plastic: The Persistence of Polyester Clothes
    3. 7. Caring for the Multiple Cares of Plastics
    4. 8. On Becoming a Massively Distributed Thing: Hedgehogs, Plastics, and the Bearable Lightness of Becoming
  6. Part III Politics
    1. 9. Communicative Capitalism, Technological Solutionism, and The Ocean Cleanup
    2. 10. Toward Large-Scale Social Change and Plastic Politics: An Anthropological Perspective on the Practices of a Danish Environmental Organization
    3. 11. Plastics Talk/Talking Plastics: The Communicative Power of Plasticity
    4. 12. Redressing the Faustian Bargains of Plastics Economies
  7. Conclusion: Where There’s a Will … Contesting Our Plastic Inheritance
  8. List of Contributors

Copyright © 2021 Trisia Farrelly, Sy Taffel, and Ian Shaw

Published by AU Press, Athabasca University

1200, 10011 – 109 Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8

https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771993272.01

Cover image: collage of images from Shutterstock (73913416, 91155179, 136314392, 193978946, 194617823, 674811316, 1203969238, 1261148134, 1420338494, 1450716176, 1450732997, 1689704221, 1718764735, 1747330817, 1791703958, 1791703961, 1791703967)

Cover design by Derek Thornton, Notch Design

Interior design by Sergiy Kozakov

Printed and bound in Canada

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Plastic legacies : pollution, persistence, and politics / edited by Trisia Farrelly, Sy Taffel, and Ian Shaw.

Names: Farrelly, Trisia, editor. | Taffel, Sy, editor. | Shaw, Ian C., editor.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210215879 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210215941 | ISBN 9781771993272 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771993289 (PDF) | ISBN 9781771993296 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: Plastic scrap. | LCSH: Plastic scrap—Environmental aspects. | LCSH: Plastic scrap—Social aspects. | LCSH: Plastics—Environmental aspects. | LCSH: Plastics—Social aspects. | LCSH: Plastics industry and trade—Environmental aspects. | LCSH: Plastics industry and trade—Social aspects.

Classification: LCC TD798 .P53 2021 | DDC 363.72/88—dc23

We acknowledge the financial assistance provided by the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund.

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