Analyzing Formosa Plastics

DEUTERO: What capacity (and incapacity) is there to recognize and attend to Formosa Plastics’ environmental harm in this setting? How might academic projects contribute to or scaffold this capacity?

Submitted by Tim Schütz on February 7, 2023 - 8:19am
MACRO: What economic activities have contributed to Formosa Plastics’ operations and pollution in this setting? How are future economies imagined and planned? What laws and policies have addressed Formosa Plastics’ development and harm?

Submitted by Tim Schütz on February 7, 2023 - 8:16am
MESO: Who are stakeholders in this Formosa Plastics community and how do they relate to each other? What forms of political organization have emerged to address Formosa Plastics’ environmental harm?

Submitted by Tim Schütz on February 7, 2023 - 8:17am
MICRO: What kinds of labor have contributed to and go on within this Formosa Plastics community? What practices (for controlling toxic contamination, for example) has Formosa Plastics provoked?

Submitted by Tim Schütz on February 7, 2023 - 8:17am
NANO: What psychologies has Formosa Plastics produced in this setting and how is this refiguring what people want and consider possible? What thought styles and language ideologies are in play?

Submitted by Tim Schütz on February 7, 2023 - 8:17am
BIO: How are bodies in this community laced and burdened by Formosa Plastics? How are bodies in this Formosa community racialized?

Submitted by Tim Schütz on February 7, 2023 - 8:17am
EXDU: Who is imagining and planning for Formosa Plastics’ futures in this setting, with what modes of expertise, cut by what vested interests? What educational programs – environmental, civic, media, STEM and so on – are addressing Formosa Plastics?

Submitted by Tim Schütz on February 7, 2023 - 8:18am
What is the relationship between decarbonization and plastic production? How does this relationship manifest materially?

Submitted by Rex Simmons on August 30, 2023 - 4:48am
What is the relationship between decarbonization and plastic production? How does this relationship manifest materially?

Submitted by Rex Simmons on August 30, 2023 - 4:48am
Transnational Alliances: How do advocates opposing Formosa Plastics Group understand/conceptualize overseas counterparts?

Submitted by Zoe Friese on October 7, 2023 - 6:58pm
How is Formosa Plastics talked and worried about in this setting? (Meta)

Submitted by Tim Schütz on February 7, 2023 - 8:16am
Transnational Alliances: What barriers (logistical, cultural, historical, imagined) may limit the creation of international activist alliances against Formosa Plastics Group?

Submitted by Zoe Friese on October 7, 2023 - 7:02pm

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