The author uses a map found by citizens at the end of a two-hundred-page technical document to illustrate the difficult task of navigating the bureaucratic processes and technical archives undertaken by their interlocutors, who strive to collect information to claim reparations around the toxicity that afflicts their communities. The infrastructure of knowledge production on these toxic spaces is designed for experts. Their interlocutors, on the other hand, are self-taught citizens; they learn the technical language of monitoring and reparation in the investigative process. The image does a great job of illustrating the jargonish and complex nature of the information, reports, and documents citizens need to collect in order to make their demands heard.
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