Understanding and Responding to Hazardous Substances at Mine Sites in the Western United States

Coherence of place often exists alongside irregularities in time in cycles, and chapter three turns to cycles linked by temporal markers. Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles (1950) follows a linear chronology and describes the exploration, conquest, and repopulation of Mars by humans. Conversely, Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1984) jumps back and forth across time to narrate the lives of interconnected families in the western United States. Bradbury’s cycle invokes a confluence of historical forces—time as value-laden, work as a calling, and travel as necessitating standardized time—and contextualizes them in relation to anxieties about the space race. Erdrich’s cycle invokes broader, oppositional conceptions of time—as recursive and arbitrary and as causal and meaningful—to depict time as implicated in an entire system of measurement that made possible the destruction and exploitation of the Chippewa people. Both volumes understand the United States to be preoccupied with imperialist impulses. Even as they critique such projects, they also point to the tenacity with which individuals encounter these systems, and they do so by creating “interstitial temporalities,” which allow them to navigate time at the crossroads of language and culture.

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A New for Science Neurotropic Species of Psilocybe (Fr.) P. Kumm. (Agaricomycetideae) from the Western United States

International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms ◽

10.1615/intjmedmushr.v12.i2.110 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 201-204

Author(s):

Gaston Guzman ◽

Joel Greene ◽

Florencia Ramirez-Guillen

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Western United States

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The Politics of Precaution

10.23943/princeton/9780691124162.001.0001 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

David Vogel

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Animal Feed ◽

The United States ◽

Hazardous Substances ◽

Risk Regulation ◽

Scientific Certainty ◽

European Public ◽

Wide Range ◽

Regulatory Controls ◽

Milk Hormones

This book examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American health, safety, and environmental regulations were more stringent, risk averse, comprehensive, and innovative than those adopted in Europe. But since around 1990 global regulatory leadership has shifted to Europe. What explains this striking reversal? This book takes an in-depth, comparative look at European and American policies toward a range of consumer and environmental risks, including vehicle air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, beef and milk hormones, genetically modified agriculture, antibiotics in animal feed, pesticides, cosmetic safety, and hazardous substances in electronic products. The book traces how concerns over such risks—and pressure on political leaders to do something about them—have risen among the European public but declined among Americans. The book explores how policymakers in Europe have grown supportive of more stringent regulations while those in the United States have become sharply polarized along partisan lines. And as European policymakers have grown more willing to regulate risks on precautionary grounds, increasingly skeptical American policymakers have called for higher levels of scientific certainty before imposing additional regulatory controls on business.

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