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- catalog abstract "Annotation <div>The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground.<br /><br />Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the victims' stories, the innovative narrative sheds light on the way advocacy works within a complex global system, calling into question conventional notions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Revealing the hopes and frustrations of advocacy, this moving work also counters the tendency to think of Bhopal as an isolated incident that "can't happen here."</div>".
- catalog contributor b12180277.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Annotation <div>The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground.<br /><br />Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the victims' stories, the innovative narrative sheds light on the way advocacy works within a complex global system, calling into question conventional notions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Revealing the hopes and frustrations of advocacy, this moving work also counters the tendency to think of Bhopal as an isolated incident that "can't happen here."</div>".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-401) and index.".
- catalog description "Plaintive response -- Happening here -- Union Carbide, having a hand in things -- Working perspectives -- States of India -- Situational particularities -- Opposing India -- Women's movements -- Anarchism and its discontents -- Communities concerned about corporations -- Green consulting.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 413 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Advocacy after Bhopal.".
- catalog identifier "0226257193 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226257207 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Advocacy after Bhopal.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog relation "Advocacy after Bhopal.".
- catalog spatial "India".
- catalog subject "363.7/058/0954 21".
- catalog subject "Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984.".
- catalog subject "Disaster relief India Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Disaster victims Services for.".
- catalog subject "Environmental policy Citizen participation.".
- catalog subject "HV553 .F65 2001".
- catalog subject "Social responsibility of business Environmental aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Plaintive response -- Happening here -- Union Carbide, having a hand in things -- Working perspectives -- States of India -- Situational particularities -- Opposing India -- Women's movements -- Anarchism and its discontents -- Communities concerned about corporations -- Green consulting.".
- catalog title "Advocacy after Bhopal : environmentalism, disaster, new global orders / Kim Fortun.".
- catalog type "text".