8 On Becoming a Massively Distributed Thing: Hedgehogs, Plastics, and the Bearable Lightness of Becoming

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Our Plastic Inheritance 1
5. Part I POLLUTION
6. 1 Marine Litter: Are There Solutions to This Global Environmental Problem? 25
7. 2 Slow Violence: Te Erosion of Marine Plastic Debris and of Human Health 41
8. 3 How Seabirds and Indigenous Science Illustrate the Legacies of Plastics Pollution 59
9. 4 Dawn of the Plastisphere: An Experiment with Unpredictable Efects 79
10. Part II PERSISTENCE
11. 5 Plastiglomerate: Plastics, Geology, and the New Materialism of the Anthropocene 103
12. 6 Dressed in Plastic: Te Persistence of Polyester Clothes 117
13. 7 Caring for the Multiple Cares of Plastics 139
14. 8 On Becoming a Massively Distributed Thing: Hedgehogs, Plastics, and the Bearable Lightness of Becoming 159
15. Part III POLITICS
16. 9 Communicative Capitalism, Technological Solutionism, and The Ocean Cleanup 181
17. 10 Toward Large-Scale Social Change and Plastic Politics: An Anthropological Perspective on the Practices of a Danish Environmental Organization 203
18. 11 Plastics Talk/Talking Plastics Te Communicative Power of Plasticity 225
19. 12 Redressing the Faustian Bargains of Plastics Economies 245
20. Conclusion Where Tere’s a Will . . . Contesting Our Plastic Inheritance 265
21. Contributors 271