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Sols saturés de métaux lourds, résidus des pesticides ou de plastique dans l’air, l’eau, les aliments et les corps, augmentation des pathologies environnementales. Nous ne vivons plus dans un monde simplement contaminé par des substances chimiques mais dans un monde devenu toxique à bien des égards, qui affecte nos vies et plus encore, celle des populationsles plus en difficultés. Cet ouvrage retrace les transformations économiques et politiques qui ont conduit depuis 1945 à la généralisation de ces pollutions et ont façonné des environnements durablement dangereux. Il analyse les modes de gouvernement des substances dangereuses et leurs effets délétères qui aujourd’hui s’imbriquent et se superposent dans les politiques nationales et internationales. Chemin faisant, cet ouvrage éclaire les ressorts qui ont permis l’essor du capitalisme alors même que ses capacités destructrices se développaient.

Pollution --- History. --- Chemical pollution --- Chemicals --- Contamination of environment --- Environmental pollution --- Contamination (Technology) --- Asbestos abatement --- Bioremediation --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental quality --- Factory and trade waste --- Hazardous waste site remediation --- Hazardous wastes --- In situ remediation --- Lead abatement --- Pollutants --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Environmental aspects --- contamination --- économie --- environnement --- évaluation --- gestion des risques --- pesticide --- politique publique --- pollution --- réglementation --- santé --- toxicité

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Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. Environmental protection regimes tend to be highly segmented according to place, media, substance, and effect; academic scholarship often reflects this same segmented approach. Yet, in chemical substances we encounter phenomena that are at once voluminous and miniscule, singular and ubiquitous, regulated yet unruly. Inspired by recent studies of materiality and infrastructures, we introduce "residual materialism" as a framework for attending to the socio-material properties of chemicals and their world-making powers. Tracking residues through time, space, and understanding helps us see how the past has been built into our present chemical environments and future-oriented regulatory systems, why contaminants seem to always evade control, and why the Anthropocene is as inextricably harnessed to the synthesis of carbon into new molecules as it is driven by carbon's combustion.

Environmental engineering --- Technology & engineering