Toxic communities are constructed and produced through discursive means. And caught up in these discourses are not just humans (and their livelihoods) but nonhuman beings. To contest toxicity requires not just challenging particular socio-economic systems that perpetuate, validate and legitimize particular discursive productions of communities as toxic is not enough. We also need to work differently disentangling our relationship with those nonhuman being that are ironically being produced as the pollutants (and threat).
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