Binding: Paperback
Description: Can the stories of bananas whales sea birds and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence tied to oil capital and trade? San Pedro Bay which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through this so - called America's Port. It is also ecologically rich. Built atop a land - and waterscape of vital importance to wildlife the heavily industrialized Los Angeles Harbor contains estuarial wetlands the L a River mouth and a marine ecology where colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters meet. In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation award - winning author Christina Dunbar - Hester explores the complex relationships among commerce empire environment and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. The L a port complex is not simply a local site Dunbar - Hester argues but a node in a network that enables the continued expansion of capitalism propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources labor violations pollution and other harms. Focusing specifically on cetaceans bananas sea birds and otters whose lives are intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself Oil Beach reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it circulates goods and capital and helps us to consider a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are not in violent tension.
Title: Oil Beach How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life In The Ports Of Los Angeles And Beyond
Author(s): Dunbar - Hester Christina
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226819716
Pages: 272 Pages, 48 Halftones
Publication Date: 1/17/2023
Category: Pollution & Threats To The Environment