Stream: Encounters between people, things and environments
<br>
<br>Panel title:
<br>Toxicity in the 21st century (Panel A29)
<br>
<br>Panel conveners: Annamaria Carusi
<br>(University of Sheffield), Thomas Widger (University of Durham)
<br>
<br>Short
<br>abstract: Toxicology has a long history. With unprecedented levels and
<br>combinations of chemicals in bodies and environments, and high industrial and
<br>political stakes in this domain, this panel gathers critiques of traditional
<br>approaches to managing toxins, and the articulation of alternative approaches.
<br>Long abstract:
<br>
<br>The 20th century saw unprecedented levels of chemicals in the
<br>environment, products, foods a vast number of chemicals and chemical mixtures
<br>about which we are largely ignorant (EDF 1997). The 20th century was a
<br>‘new age of toxicity’ (Cronon 2010), and there is certainly no sign of
<br>this abating in the 21st, with serious implications for human and animal
<br>health, and for the environment. The nature and actions of industrially
<br>produced chemicals challenge deep seated traditional conceptions of poisons,
<br>as well as the methods, tools and technologies, and broad approaches for
<br>testing and regulating them. With high industrial and political stakes in the
<br>science of toxicology and the governance of chemicals, this is a domain where
<br>science, nature and society are inextricably interconnected.
<br>
<br>This panel
<br>invites papers that analyse the current situation and advance new and emerging
<br>trends in toxicology,, including (but not limited to):
<br>
<br>— alternative
<br>scientific and regulatory approaches in social, economic and political context
<br>— histories and politics of toxicology
<br>— feminist critiques of toxicology
<br>— toxicology in cultural context
<br>— local and global toxicologies
<br>—
<br>citizen activism and toxicology
<br>— technologies and toxicology
<br>— human and
<br>non-human animals and toxicology
<br>
<br>References
<br>
<br>Cronon, W., 2010. Foreword: The
<br>Pain of a Poisoned World. In Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial
<br>Disease in Japan. Washington, D.C.: Washington University Press, pp. ix–xii.
<br>EDF (Environmental Defence Fund) 1997. Toxic Ignorance: The Continuing Absence
<br>of Basic Health Testing for Top-selling Chemicals in the United States.
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