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Chemical Exposures

Toxicity in the Anthropocene

Edited by Sahra Gibbon, Emilie Glazer, Lucy Sabin, and Andrew Barry

University College London, 2026

This cutting-edge study traces how chemical exposures are lived, experienced, sensed, and registered, foregrounding new conceptual and methodological approaches in science and technology studies.

Exposure to toxic chemicals has become commonplace, yet the study of both chemicals and toxicity has tended to remain at the margins of the social sciences. This volume addresses the entangled landscape of toxic chemicals in the Anthropocene, drawing together research by anthropologists, geographers, artists, and scholars in science and technology studies. The contributors understand chemical pollution as not simply pervasive, but multiple, situated, unequal, and profoundly relational and affective, traversing temporal and spatial scales as it continuously disrupts and reconfigures the relations between the geological and the human, the political and the material, and the social and natural sciences and humanities. Chemical Exposures explores the accumulation of toxic substances in society, the multiple scales of exposure, and the diverse ways in which exposure can be both sensed and visualized.

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cover of Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, and Rationalities of Government

Foucault and Political Reason

Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, and Rationalities of Government

Edited by Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne, and Nikolas Rose

University of Chicago Press, 1996

Despite the enormous influence of Michel Foucault in gender studies, social theory, and cultural studies, his work has been relatively neglected in the study of politics. Although he never published a book on the state, in the late 1970s Foucault examined the technologies of power used to regulate society and the ingenious recasting of power and agency that he saw as both consequence and condition of their operation.

These twelve essays provide a critical introduction to Foucault's work on politics, exploring its relevance to past and current thinking about liberal and neo-liberal forms of government. Moving away from the great texts of liberal political philosophy, this book looks closely at the technical means with which the ideals of liberal political rationalities have been put into practice in such areas as schools, welfare, and the insurance industry.

This fresh approach to one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century is essential reading for anyone interested in social and cultural theory, sociology, and politics.
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