Life without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay
ISBN: 9780520968240
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Lead poisoning -- Uruguay -- 20th century; Environmentalism -- Uruguay -- 20th century;

Life without Lead examines the social, political, and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic. Drawing from a political ecology of health perspective, the book situates the Uruguayan lead contamination crisis in relation to neoliberal reform, globalization, and the resurgence of the political Left in Latin America. The author traces the rise of an environmental social justice movement, and the local and transnational circulation of environmental ideologies and contested science. Through fine-grained ethnographic analysis, this book shows how combating contamination intersected with class politics, explores the relationship of lead poisoning to poverty, and debates the best way to identify and manage an unprecedented local environmental health problem.

Renfrew Daniel :

Daniel Renfrew is Associate Professor of Anthropology at West Virginia University.


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