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The Bhopal Reader

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Author : Bridget Hanna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781891843327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book The Bhopal Reader written by Bridget Hanna and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronicle of the multifaceted Bhopal campaign against two of the world's most powerful chemical corporations, Union Carbide and Dow Chemical Co. (which now owns Union Carbide), parallels the emergence of public understanding of environmental safety and corporate accountability that Bhopal helped to create.Written at the 20th anniversary, the Reader includes primary source documents of this evolution. In 1984, the deadly pesticide used in Bhopal and in the United States was hailed by agro-business as part of its "revolution." A valuable reference text for industrial accidents and corporate crimes as well as a handbook for research, prevention and activism, the collection includes gripping first person stories of some of the 200,000 permanently-injured survivors, activists, journalists, scientists, doctors, government and corporate officials. This anthology brings together never-before published testimonies, archival documents translated from Hindi, legal and scientific evidence and commentary, social analysis, even corporate perspectives on liability, and web debates, with comprehensive introductions for each aspect of the disaster. The Bhopal Reader documents forces that are even now bringing Bhopali women to the very doors of the corporation in protest. Some 21 years later, the drinking water is contaminated because Union Carbide never cleaned up its abandoned factory with bags of stored chemicals, causing genetic damage to yet another generation from the deadly methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas. The book reports on the international Bhopal campaign being waged today by survivors, activists, lawyers, doctors - in India, the U.S., Britain and elsewhere around the world - for compensation for all the Bhopal victims. It takes its readers across continents, into newspapers, television stations, websites, courtrooms, shareholders annual meetings, campuses, and chemical plants. The Bhopal Reader presents a valuable case study of the complexities of fighting for justice in a world increasingly overrun by the politics of corporate rule under globalization. Its voices herald the dialogues that will dominate this new century and The Bhopal Reader is the indispensable guide to understanding them.

Five Past Midnight in Bhopal

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Author : Dominique Lapierre
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 044656124X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Five Past Midnight in Bhopal written by Dominique Lapierre and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, kaleidoscopic account of a horrific industrial disaster that shook the world, from wold-renowned humanitarian and internationally bestselling author Dominique Lapierre. It was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing and injuring thousands of people. When the noxious clouds cleared, the worst industrial disaster in history had taken place. Now, Dominique Lapierre brings the hundreds of characters, conflicts, and adventures together in an unforgettable tale of love and hope. Readers will meet the poetry-loving factory worker who unleashes the apocalypse, the young Indian bride who was to be married that terrible night, and the doctors who died that night saving others.

A Breath of Fresh Air

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Author : Amulya Malladi
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 030741437X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Breath of Fresh Air written by Amulya Malladi and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of December 3, 1984, Anjali waits for her army officer husband to pick her up at the train station in Bhopal, India. In an instant, her world changes forever. Her anger at his being late turns to horror when a catastrophic gas leak poisons the city air. Anjali miraculously survives. Her marriage does not. A smart, successful schoolteacher, Anjali is now remarried to Sandeep, a loving and stable professor. Their lives would be nearly perfect, if not for their young son’s declining health. But when Anjali’s first husband suddenly reappears in her life, she is thrown back to the troubling days of their marriage with a force that impacts everyone around her. Her first husband’s return brings back all the uncertainty Anjali thought time and conviction had healed–about her decision to divorce, and about her place in a society that views her as scandalous for having walked away from her arranged marriage. As events unfold, feelings she had guarded like gold begin to leak away from her, spreading out into the world and challenging her once firm beliefs. Rich in insight into Indian culture and psychology, A Breath of Fresh Air resonates with meaning and the abiding power of love. In a landscape as intriguing as it is unfamiliar, Anjali’s struggles to reconcile the roles of wife and ex-wife, working woman and mother, illuminate both the fascinating duality of the modern Indian woman and the difficult choices all women must make. From the Hardcover edition.

Advocacy after Bhopal

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Author : Kim Fortun
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226257185
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Advocacy after Bhopal written by Kim Fortun and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global distribution of technological risk; others consider the disaster a turning point in environmental legislation; still others argue that Bhopal is what globalization looks like on the ground. Kim Fortun explores these claims by focusing on the dynamics and paradoxes of advocacy in competing power domains. She moves from hospitals in India to meetings with lawyers, corporate executives, and environmental justice activists in the United States to show how the disaster and its effects remain with us. Spiraling outward from the victims' stories, the innovative narrative sheds light on the way advocacy works within a complex global system, calling into question conventional notions of responsibility and ethical conduct. Revealing the hopes and frustrations of advocacy, this moving work also counters the tendency to think of Bhopal as an isolated incident that "can't happen here."

The Bhopal Chemical Leak

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Author : Arthur Diamond
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781560060093
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Bhopal Chemical Leak written by Arthur Diamond and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the chemical leak at Bhopal in its historical, cultural, and human contexts.

Bhopal Gas Tragedy

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Author : Suroopa Mukherjee
Publisher : Tulika Books
ISBN 13 : 9788186895849
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Bhopal Gas Tragedy written by Suroopa Mukherjee and published by Tulika Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Surviving Bhopal

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Author : S. Mukherjee
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230608115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Bhopal written by S. Mukherjee and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 2-3, 1984, India witnessed arguably the world s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which continues to this day as an economic, medical, environmental, and political disaster. Surviving Bhopal draws on oral testimonials of the affected community and analyzes the cause and aftermath of the disaster from the perspective of those who suffered the severe consequences of systemic failure and travesty of justice. The event resulted in a resistance movement, led by women, against corporate and state power. Mukherjee explores the underlying gender politics, showing how activism challenged and redefined the contemporary model of development.

Animal's People

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Author : Indra Sinha
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141657879X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Animal's People written by Indra Sinha and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, "Animal's People" is by turns a profane, scathingly funny, and piercingly honest tale of a boy so badly damaged by the poisons released during a chemical plant leak that he walks on all fours.

White Privilege

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Author : Kalwant Bhopal
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447335988
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book White Privilege written by Kalwant Bhopal and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalised? Despite claims that we now live in a post-racial society, race continues to disadvantage those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Kalwant Bhopal explores how neoliberal policy making has increased rather than decreased discrimination faced by those from non-white backgrounds. She also shows how certain types of whiteness are not privileged; Gypsies and Travellers, for example, remain marginalised and disadvantaged in society. Drawing on topical debates and supported by empirical data, this important book examines the impact of race on wider issues of inequality and difference in society.

Bhopal

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Author : Nichol Bryan
Publisher : World Almanac Library
ISBN 13 : 9780836855036
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Bhopal written by Nichol Bryan and published by World Almanac Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death came at midnight for victims of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India, on December 3, 1984. The airborne leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant killed more than three thousand people and permanently injured thousands more. Explore the causes behind the world's deadliest industry-related environmental disaster and the ongoing efforts to deal with the human and natural damage it caused. Book jacket.

The Bhopal Tragedy

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Author : Ward Morehouse
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Bhopal Tragedy written by Ward Morehouse and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hard-hitting report to the Citizens Commission on Bhopal was the first book-length account of the Bhopal tragedy and its implications for American workers and communities exposed to similar risks. It addresses the key question of who was responsible for this catastrophic accident and probes the health and environmental, impact of the disaster which killed at least 5,000 people and injured more than 200,000. This book presents an entirely different view of the whole compensation question and what is true justice for the victims involved, with a detailed calculation of $4.1 billion (in l985 dollars) in compensation for economic losses alone. The authors gave what was then an up-to-date picture of the tangled web of litigation in U.S. and Indian courts, involving billions of dollars in claims. The later chapters in the book explore the implications of the Bhopal tragedy for U.S. workers and communities, drawing heavily on presentations made to the March 1984 Newark NJ conference on Bhopal organized by the Workers Policy Project. The book concludes with an agenda for citizen action and a series of appendices providing key facts about this tragedy.

Bhopal's Ecological Gothic

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Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498540465
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Bhopal's Ecological Gothic written by Pramod K. Nayar and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book studies the cultural texts—fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports—produced around the world’s worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological Gothic, wherein the city, its landscape and its people are Gothicized. After tracing the history of the disaster as a history of negligence, the book proceeds in later chapters to study the coverage of the events themselves by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster – the haunting – within human bodies and nature. Finally, it examines the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide.

The Bhopal Saga

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Author : Ingrid Eckerman
Publisher : Universities Press
ISBN 13 : 9788173715150
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Bhopal Saga written by Ingrid Eckerman and published by Universities Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bhopal Saga Is An Incisive Analysis Of One Of The Worst Industrial Accidents That Has Taken Place In The Recent Past. It Also Discusses The Conflicting Stance Of The Union Carbide Corporation And The Government Of India On The Moral Responsibility For The Tragedy.

Each Tiny Spark

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Author : Pablo Cartaya
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451479734
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Each Tiny Spark written by Pablo Cartaya and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Pablo Cartaya comes a deeply moving middle grade novel about a daughter and father finding their way back to each other in the face of their changing family and community. A SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD HONOR FOR MIDDLE GRADE Emilia Torres has a wandering mind. It's hard for her to follow along at school, and sometimes she forgets to do what her mom or abuela asks. But she remembers what matters: a time when her family was whole and home made sense. When Dad returns from deployment, Emilia expects that her life will get back to normal. Instead, it unravels. Dad shuts himself in the back stall of their family's auto shop to work on an old car. Emilia peeks in on him daily, mesmerized by his welder. One day, Dad calls Emilia over. Then, he teaches her how to weld. And over time, flickers of her old dad reappear. But as Emilia finds a way to repair the relationship with her father at home, her community ruptures with some of her classmates, like her best friend, Gus, at the center of the conflict. Each Tiny Spark by Pablo Cartaya is a tender story about asking big questions and being brave enough to reckon with the answers.

Chemical Accident

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Author : Christopher Lampton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781562943165
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Chemical Accident written by Christopher Lampton and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the causes of chemical accidents, describes such disasters as the Bhopal catastrophe, and examines how such accidents can be prevented.

The Black Box of Bhopal

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Author : Themistocles D'Silva
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781412084123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Black Box of Bhopal written by Themistocles D'Silva and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just after midnight on December 3, 1984, a gas leak occurred at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. A vigorous chemical reaction inside a methyl isocyanate (MIC) storage tank, nicknamed the "Black Box", caused most of the material to vaporize and escape. Within days, over two thousand nearby residents were confirmed dead and tens of thousands exposed to toxic gases, which would cause them untold pain and health problems for years to come. The Black Box of Bhopal is a highly researched work that will challenge many of the public's assumptions about the disaster. It reveals new documents related to the construction and operations of the MIC plant and the internal workings of Union Carbide Corporation and its Indian subsidiary. It also critically analyzes the Indian government investigation report about the postulated cause of the gas leak. Through extensive explanation of the plant's history, scientific studies of the residue from the tank, and several flaws in the subsequent government controlled investigation, a clearer understanding of the events will be revealed that may surprise many readers. " This insightful book stretches from an explanation of how economic and political development in India contributed to the accident through the detailed chemistry involved.... The strength of D'Silva's book is the integration of original documentation...that demostrates just how complex the relationships were between Union Carbide; Union Carbide India Ltd. (UCIL), the subsidiary that operated the Bhopal plant; the Indian federal government and the local government.... D'Silva's book is an excellent Bhopal resource." Book review by Ronald J. Willey, professor of chemical engineering at Northeastern University. Chemical & Engineering News, American Chemical Society. See the full review here

Bhopal Dance

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Author : Jennifer Natalya Fink
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 1573660647
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Bhopal Dance written by Jennifer Natalya Fink and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative, erotic rethinking of Bhopal's disaster--and perhaps our own