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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright
- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988
- ISBN
- 978-1-137-54667-8
- Pages
- 15 –29
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-54668-5_2
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Abstract
[In this chapter, I examine Huelva, a town in southern Spain, heavily polluted by a huge industrial and chemical plant built during the 1960s in close proximity to the town. This case of environmental crime is guided by questions such as: How do people live and give a meaning to their experiences in contaminated places? What is the link between the awareness (or, conversely, the denial) of the risks present in a contaminated environment, the experiences of environmental injustice and suffering of the inhabitants and the collective inaction? These questions provide the springboard from which I consider how we might approach the multiple ways in which particular narratives and vocabularies of motives are accepted or opposed by the victims of an environmental disaster.]
Published: Oct 15, 2016
Keywords: Huelva; Environmental contamination; Radical interactionism; Social perception; Environmental victims