Life without Lead (2018) by anthropologist Daniel Renfrew is a fine-grained ethnography of the lead contimination crisis in Urugay. Seea series of reviews and comments in the Somatosphere book forum (2019).
Santa Ana is a city in Southern California's affluent Orange County. Several of the city's neighborhoods are intense hotspots of lead contamination.
¡Plo-NO! Santa Ana (Lead-Free Santa Ana) is a project organized by Orange County Environmental Justice. In collaboration with Jovenes Cultivando Cambios and health researchers at University of California, Irvine, the group has done community research on lead contamination.
Photo by Raul Roa, LA Times, 2019.
The 2019 Field Campus in St. Louis engaged with the city's intense problem of lead contamination, found particularly in decaying housing stock and nearby industrial hot spots, such as Granite City, Illinois.
Photo by Scott G. Knowles, 2019.
Press release (2016) by the International Pollution Elimination Network (IPEN), detailing the high lead levels in paint sold in Taiwan. The research was carried out by Xavier Sun for the NGO Taiwan Watch.
