期刊
JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
卷 36, 期 2, 页码 132-142出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2009.09.003
关键词
Water pollution; France; Lorraine; Industry; Steel; Materiality; Discursive constructions; Social order
资金
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/E002196/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/E002196/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Set within a Douglasian framework, this paper explores the genesis and the social significance of the concept of environmental 'pollution' in late nineteenth-century France by drawing on printed scientific and medical sources and analysing archival material from administrations and industrial companies. 'Pollution' brought together various strands of water research (especially water analysis, bacteriology and hydrology) but also served as the foundation of a discourse on industrial responsibility. It was a response to the new material circulations created by industrial discharges in river. Paradoxically, it condoned industrial discharges in watercourses, which the hygienist community deemed less dangerous than domestic wastewaters. The co-production of pollution science and nineteenth-century industrial order explains why industrial water pollution was allowed to go unabated. The incapacity of the legal framework of the time to accommodate polluting discharges as legal objects and find legitimate places for them, the power politics at work around pollution and scientific controversies themselves made discharges very difficult to challenge in court. Accordingly, water pollution was regulated informally and industrialists were able to claim rivers as legitimate places for industrial matter against challenges brought up by other social actors. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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