Available to Be Poisoned

In Available to Be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals marks a deliberate and violent relationship with the Earth and its "e;others,"e; born of colonialism and capitalism's entwined histories. Mathur offers the concept of "e;toxicity as a form of life"e; to signpost the normalization of toxic exposure and analyzes how states use toxicity to control populations on the fringes of our global political economy by making them available to be poisoned.