1166 | 577 | everyday disregard and environmental precariousness. Ohio Valley dwellers and the arts of living unwell. | Gabriel Esteban Espinoza Rivera

This work has been built over one year of explorations and informal talks with dwellers of the Ohio valley, entailing cases mostly in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Taking into consideration approaches to governance and precariousness, and the environmental attritions experienced by myriad residents of the area, I delve into how active ignorance (or disregard) plays a kernel role to supply meaning to lives under constant threat. This work is a tiny account of the situation of everyday life in the context of slow violence, built upon an approach of waste and discard studies, prioritizing ethnographic data and quantitative information about the pollution situation in the area.

Gabriel Esteban Espinoza Rivera
University of Pittsburgh
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