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It conveys the complexity of how toxic landscapes emerge historically and are contested or not by locals and nonlocals. It shows a local activist looking over a city that has been affected by industrial toxicity. The awesome landscape conveys a sense of how this place was once non-toxic, invoking a sense of temporality, as if the activist is looking back and forward through time as the place is affected by toxicity.

The caption is brilliant already, covering many different ethnographic aspects of the case study in question.

Taken by author.The gaze of the activist is extremely intriguing and the composition is great, allowing us to see the 'natural' landscape as well as the industry beneath. This gives the aesthetic multiple scales.

No, it's great.

The image says something about the spatialities and temporalities of toxics. Here, from a seemingly peaceful and eerily beautiful viewpoint, the future and past of this landscape is invoked. The caption notes how toxics are contested between a number of different actors, and the complexity of this contestation is evoked in the way the activist looks down onto a messy industrial centre.

The visualization juxtaposes two graphic artifacts to either side, both detailing the realities of living by toxic spaces. The caption prompts us to think about the entanglements of place, in that the webs of government, communities, people and things that often interlink in various ways, equally demands scrutiny and reinforcement. The visual and caption brings up questions of responsibility, asking when is it that the lived realities of toxicity become real concerns for the "wider" community? 

If the resolution of the image was higher, that would have helped the viewer. I was keen on looking at the poster and letter but wasn't able to. The caption, could perhaps, detail the contents of the letter and poster more. 

The visualization/caption engage with the notion that when dealing with toxicity in a given place, responsibility often falls to the women and children who also tend to be affected the most. As "citizen scientists," they are encouraged to conduct the research deemed necessary to address the toxicity. The author poses questions regarding professionalization, neglectful practices of land management, and responsibilization of citizens in the midst of slow violence.

It would be helpful if the author more directly speaks to toxicity of place and how it fits within their argument and how the visualization specifically addresses it. Presently, it is difficult to decipher much from the visualization and how it's a representation of toxicity of place. It would also help if there is a brief description of what fire landfills are, and how they are physically and socially toxic, as well as where they tend to be located (a bit more context).

An image created from found materials by the author, including a poster by a child and a letter to the students regarding the landfill. The notable aesthetic is involved in the contrast between the child's honest and earnest depiction of the landfill and the more stringent and formal letter to the parents. Each attempt to grasp a sense of the landfill and generate/share information, but the child's poster seems more revelatory whereas the letter is more closed-off and seems to conceal as much as it reveals.