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Ottinger relays the stories of a few communities in Lousiana that neighbor petrochemical facilities — the struggle over what "expertise" comes to mean for both the petrochemical engineers and CEOs and the residents and environmental justice activists living just outside the fenceline. Ottinger finds that, in this case, opening communication channels between industry and community became a tactic to discuss environmental problems exclusively on industry terms and relying on industry expertise. This book needed an orienting introduction. In media res works for some books, but here I felt lost in detail until the conclusion drew out the ethnography's themes.
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