3 Activity 1.3 – Defining Toxic Heritage

Elizabeth Kryder-Reid

Associated Readings:

Select at least three readings from Toxic Heritage.

Targeted Skills:

Comparative Analysis

Suggested format:

In-class discussion; comparative essay.

glass bottles ifilled with different colors of shale oil on display n a museum case.
Samples of shale oil on display at the Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil Industry

Directions:

One aspect of toxic heritage is that it includes the intersections of environmental harm and memory. Select at least three readings from the Toxic Heritage volume and compare how toxicity and memory are connected.

Analysis:

  • What is the toxicity of environmental harm?
  • What are the memory practices?
  • How do the intersection and toxicity and memory compare across the readings you’ve selected? What is similar and what is different?
  • How do the comparisons inform the idea of toxic heritage more broadly?

 

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