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In Toxic Town, Peter C. Little tracks and critically diagnoses the experiences of Endicott residents as they learn to live with high-tech pollution, community transformation, scientific expertise, corporate-state power, and risk mitigation technologies.

In Toxic Town, Peter C. By weaving together the insights of anthropology, political ecology, disaster studies, and science and technology studies, the book explores questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics of risk and the ironies of technological disaster response in a time when IBM’s stated mission is to build a Smarter Planet.

In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York.

Peter C. Little, New York: NYU Press, 2014, 243 pages. Risk analysis has progressed a great deal in recent years. We cannot identify high risk activities and the most cost-effective countermeasures well (if not optimally) and inexpensively. to change first, independent of the underlying model.

InToxic Town,Peter C. Littletracks and critically diagnoses the experiences of Endicott residents as they learn to live with high-tech pollution, community transformation, scientific expertise, corporate-state power, and risk mitigation technologies.

Published by: NYU Press. InToxic Town,Peter C. Little tracks and critically diagses the experiences of Endicott residents as they learn to live with high-tech pollution, community transformation, scientific expertise, corporate-state power, and risk mitigation techlogies. By weaving together the insights of anthropology, political ecology, disaster studies, and science and techlogy studies, the book explores questions of theoretical and practical import for understanding the politics of risk and the ironies of techlogical disaster response in a time when IBM's stated mission is to build a Smarter Planet.

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Location & Availability for: Toxic town : IBM, Pollution, and industr. Little, Peter C. Published: New York : New York University Press, 2014.

xxii, 242 p. map, illus. Published: 9 August 2018. in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. In Toxic Town, Peter C.