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CP433


Navigating toxicity elsewhere and elsewhen 
Convenors:
Emily Yates-Doerr (Oregon State University)
Rebeca Ibañez Martin (Meertens Institute)
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Discussant:
Mariana Rios Sandoval (Wageningen University)
Format:
Closed Panel
Location:
NU-6A25
Sessions:
Friday 19 July, -
Time zone: Europe/Amsterdam

Short Abstract:

Feeding and nourishing ourselves can be intoxicating. This panel explores sensorial practices through which people come to know past and present toxins as hazardous and/or enticing. We raise questions about how poison is lived and known to ask how to live with/in while also transforming toxicity.

Long Abstract:

Feeding and nourishing ourselves can be intoxicating. New toxic wastes are found in soils, food, bodies and water systems every day, joining historical pollutants at such a rapid rate that ecologists and toxicologists can't keep up. In this panel, we attune our empirical methods to explore ‘the toxic sensorium’ through which people have historically and currently come to know toxins as hazardous and/or enticing (Chen cited in Stein & Luna 2021). The cases we offer focus on the sensorial practices used to navigate and co-theorize the present-absences of pollution. How do we attend to chemical hazards that might be here and now, but which are also produced and circulated at other points of place and time (the ‘elsewhere and elsewhen’)? How can we work with substances that exceed ecology’s traditional understandings of organisms or systems, while maintaining concern for the ecological entanglements that can nurture or imperil us? Together the papers in this panel raise questions about how toxicity is lived and known through sensorial practice, and how such sensorial practices in turn open space for making and doing social and environmental change. Our collective analysis of how humans and non-humans navigate the chemical milieux and its palimpsestic forms seeks to offer routes to living with/in – and transforming – toxicity.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 19 July, 2024, -