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Addressing the Climate Crisis

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Howarth, Candice, Lane, Matthew, Slevin, Amanda

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This essay reflects on plastic pollution as a global justice issue through the author's fieldwork in rural Guatemala, where communities burn plastic waste in cooking fires due to lack of sanitation infrastructure, releasing toxic fumes and microplastics into the air and water. The author argues that plastic pollution is driven by corporate and colonial forces and calls for upstream policy solutions beyond individual community action.

Her research investigates everyday practices and socio-spatial transformation of household-based crafts industry in an informal community due to shifting governance policies. She has conducted ethnographic and participatory research of studying lives and livelihoods of marginalised communities affected by disjointed infrastructures.

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