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A scholar-led, collectively managed platinum Open Access journal designated to be a forum devoted to exploring the social, cultural and political life of infrastructure. https://roadsides.net
In "Ammonia Synthesis: Entering a Ubiquitous Chemical Technosphere" Benjamin Steininger rethinks ammonia synthesis and follows its specific associated toxicities, putting particular emphasis on the ‘openness’ of industrial infrastructure. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In her article "Toxic Recurrences" Kaitlyn Rabach demonstrates that crumbling homes and toxic mould go unacknowledged in County Donegal, Ireland, as residents fear speaking out will devalue their property. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In "Repairing Toxic: Deferred Maintenance in Schools" Margaret Tebbe and Fred Ariel Hernandez suggest how late-industrial ethnography can make visible some of the toxic hazards in Los Angeles school buildings. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In "Silica Trails: Turned Soils, Dusty Lungs" Juliana Ramos Boldrin illustrates how silica exposure can damage health, but mitigating the harm could jeopardise Brazil’s dominance in silica export. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In "Toxic Struggles: Asbestos in Argentina’s Subway" Jorge Afarian reveals how Buenos Aires metro workers face illegal asbestos exposure and uncovers a troubling hierarchy between acceptable and unacceptable health risks. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Gulzat Baialieva considers how 80 tons of abandoned toxic waste in Kyrgyzstan trigger discussions on the toxic aftermath of neoliberal reforms and state neglect in her article "Seeking Environmental Justice Amid Post-Industrial Ruins."
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April 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In his article "Wounded Landscape: Ambivalence and Toxic Extractivism in Indonesia" Fahmi R. Fahroji explores how a coal company’s seizure of rubber plantations in Indonesia has pushed farmers into toxic, low-paying jobs in the mining industry.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In "Remediating Trails: Addressing Toxicities from Pitchblende Transportation" Laura Goyhenex links historical uranium ore spills on Indigenous land in Canada’s Northwest Territories to both toxic contamination and colonial power relations.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In his article "Breaking Points: Mediated Contaminations, Infrastructural Toxicity" Andrea Bordoli examines mining-linked water contamination in Indigenous lands in Canada and proposes infrastructural toxicity as a lens to address settler-colonial violence.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
In "Toxic Infrastructures: An Introduction" Nikolaos Olma and Janine Hauer argue that toxic infrastructures provide a unique lens through which to capture the workings and effects of late industrialism across scales and temporalities. roadsides.net/collection-n...
April 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM