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Toxic Matters: Law, Science and Risk in an Ecuadorian Lawsuit Against the Chevron Corporation

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Suzana Sawyer, University of California-Davis, a cultural and environmental anthropologist engaged with issues of oil politics and human rights in the Amazonian region of Ecuador. Sawyer follows the social life of oil through the indigenous communities that suffer the exploitation of their land's resources, to the Ecuadorian state, to the multinational oil companies in the U.S. courts where the toxic effects of oil drilling and natural gas extraction by Texaco9 and Chevron have been litigated. Her book, Crude Chronicles (Duke, 2004) situates the cultural environment of the upper Amazon in this broad institutional nexus, rethinking anthropological categories (local, global, citizen, state - among other) as she goes.

Location: 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Date/Time: 03/25/10 at 4:30 pm - 03/25/10 at 5:30 pm

Sponsor: Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI)