Aproximación dialógica a los desastres tóxicos. El agente naranja en el valle a luoi (Vietnam)

Tak Uesugi

doi:10.11156/aibr.140103

Aproximación dialógica a los desastres tóxicos. El agente naranja en el valle a luoi (Vietnam)

Translated title of the contribution: A dialogic approach to toxic disasters: Agent orange in a luoi valley

Tak Uesugi

Institute for Global Human Resource Development

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Abstract

In the 2000s, a scientific research by a Canadian environmental consulting firm triggered a public health campaign in A Luoi Valley of Central Vietnam. It informed its inhabitants — for the first time — about the risks and harms associated with chemical defoliant “Agent Orange” and its toxic contaminant dioxin sprayed during the Second Indochina War (19611975). In this article, instead of focusing on the political identity formed by such knowledge (“biosocial” approach), I explore how the risk of toxic substance is experienced by the inhabitants in dialogic encounters vis-à-vis various environmental signs as well as imaginary and real interlocutors.

Translated title of the contribution	A dialogic approach to toxic disasters: Agent orange in a luoi valley
Original language	Spanish
Pages (from-to)	29-50
Number of pages	22
Journal	AIBR Revista de Antropologia Iberoamericana
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11156/aibr.140103
Publication status	Published - Jan 1 2019

Keywords

Agent Orange
Dialogic relation
Subjectivity
Vietnam

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Anthropology

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