![]() ![]() (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books.) Seattle: University of Washington Press. This lecture is also sponsored by the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. Chun was a distinguished and visionary educator. Dai Ho Chun through his estate gift, which established The Dai Ho Chun Endowment for Distinguished Lecturers at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Colleges of Arts & Sciences. This free public lecture is made possible by the late Dr. Walker has concentrated his research at the intersection of human health, environmental change, and the history of scientific ideas to better understand the global challenges that face humanity. His books include Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan (2010), Winner of the 2011 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History, The Lost Wolves of Japan (2005), and The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590& ndash 1800 (2001).īorn in Bozeman, Montana, Walker attributes much of his interest in the environment to a childhood spent outdoors, working on a wheat and barley farm in Cascade, Montana, and fishing for trout on the Missouri River. He investigates how nature, in manifestations ranging from infectious disease to nonhuman animals, has imposed its way onto the human past, as well as how humans have sliced, burned, extracted and engineered their needs and desires onto Earth and its living organisms. His books explore how humans have altered the environment, or have been altered by the environment, across both historical time and geographic space. Walker received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 for his project, “The Slow Dying: Asbestos and the Unmaking of the Modern World.” He studies environmental history, the history of human health, and the history of science. The free lecture will take place at the Art Building Auditorium on Tuesday, March 11, at 6 p.m. Walker is coming to the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa to give a public lecture titled “An Environmental History of Terrorism: 9/11, World Trade Center Dust, and the Global Nature of New York’s Toxic Bodies.” This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years ― and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.Dr. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos. Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies. In doing so, he analyzes Japanese familial systems, religious and cultural beliefs, medical practices, Japanese empire-building, war, industrialism, environmental disasters, etc. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago.ĭuring the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Walker employs a framework of hybrid causation and complex causal webs to analyze six aspects of Japanese environmental disasters. ![]() Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. Our lives depend on these relationships ― and are imperiled by them as well. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan available in Hardcover, Paperback, eBook. Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. ![]()
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