Christina Dunbar-Hester
Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond
Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond
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In her book "Oil Beach," Christina Dunbar-Hester investigates the complex relationships between commerce, empire, environment, and nonhuman life forms in San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years, revealing how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies and helps us consider a future where the accumulation of life and capital are not in violent tension.
Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 24 January 2023
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
San Pedro Bay, which encompasses the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, holds immense significance as a prominent hub for petroleum shipping and refining, ranking among the largest container shipping ports globally. Approximately forty percent of containerized imports to the United States transit through this so-called Americas Port. Moreover, San Pedro Bay boasts remarkable ecological richness. Situated atop a landscape of vital importance to wildlife, the heavily industrialized Los Angeles Harbor encompasses estuarial wetlands, the mouth of the LA River, and a marine ecology where colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters converge. In this captivating interdisciplinary exploration, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester delves into the intricate interplay between commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the past fifty years, coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. The LA port complex, argues Dunbar-Hester, extends beyond its local confines and functions as a pivotal node in a network that facilitates the ongoing expansion of capitalism, propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources, labor violations, pollution, and other harms.
Focusing specifically on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are intricately intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach unveils how logistics infrastructure poses a threat to ecologies as it circulates goods and capital. It prompts us to contemplate a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital do not exist in violent tension.
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780226819693
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