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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Dunbar-Hester, Christina, 1976-     Subjects     Environmental sciences -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     Ecology -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     Environmentalism -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     Container terminals -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     Infrastructure (Economics) -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     San Pedro Bay (Calif. : Bay) -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dunbar-Hester, Christina, 1976-       by title:      Oil beach : how toxi...       by call number:      333.917 D898o     Search the Web     Dunbar-Hester, Christina, 1976-     Environmental sciences -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     Ecology -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     Environmentalism -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     Container terminals -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     Infrastructure (Economics) -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)     San Pedro Bay (Calif. : Bay) -- History.       MARC Display

Oil beach : how toxic infrastructure threatens life in the ports of Los Angeles and beyond / Christina Dunbar-Hester. by Dunbar-Hester, Christina, 1976- The University of Chicago Press, 2023. Call #: 333.917 D898o Subjects Environmental sciences -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)   Ecology -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)   Environmentalism -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)   Container terminals -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)   Infrastructure (Economics) -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)   Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- California -- San Pedro Bay (Bay)   San Pedro Bay (Calif. : Bay) -- History. ISBN:  9780226819716 (pbk) 9780226819693 (hc) Alternate title:  How toxic infrastructure threatens life in the ports of Los Angeles and beyond Description:  xiv, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade? San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a significant site for petroleum shipping and refining as well as one of the largest container shipping ports in the world-some forty percent of containerized imports to the United States pass through this so-called America's Port. It is also ecologically rich. Built atop a land -- and waterscape of vital importance to wildlife, the heavily industrialized Los Angeles Harbor contains estuarial wetlands, the LA River mouth, and a marine ecology where colder and warmer Pacific Ocean waters meet. In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation, award-winning author Christina Dunbar-Hester explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years -- a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. The LA port complex is not simply a local site, Dunbar-Hester argues, but a node in a network that enables the continued expansion of capitalism, propelling trade as it drives the extraction of natural resources, labor violations, pollution, and other harms. Focusing specifically on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it circulates goods and capital-and helps us to consider a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are not in violent tension."--Publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 333.917 D898o Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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