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I didn't write as much as I could have about Terminal Island in my book #OilBeach. (I'm still following some research threads about it, would be more active were it not for fascism)

Two photos of the area discussed in the article do appear in the book tho:

1, This statue commemorating the Japanese fishing village, taken by me, 2021

Statue of Japanese fishermen, with shipping cranes in the background across a channel of water. SMoggy air at horizon and bleue sky overhead

"The chapters, constructed as 'multispecies stories,' ... consider ecologies & infrastructure together in novel ways that challenge our conceptual separations between the two. Readers will find a theoretically exciting & vibrantly composed read with OIL BEACH" 🛢️🏖️📙

https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/24661

Thank you for this lovely review, Shelley Tuazon Guyton & IJOC!

Here's the book:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

#Commodon #STS #EnvHist @ecologies @sts #OilBeach #multispecies #CriticalLogistics

@SallyStrange An image that appears in #OilBeach. Dawn soap is, of course, a petroleum product itself, too

Snapshot of iconic Dawn dish soap bottle featuring fluffy yellow ducklings

Part of what is wild about that snapshot, I guess, is that one of the original designs we considered for the #OilBeach cover had a tiny sailboat on it. I'd forgotten about it until today!

Book cover depicting a sickly yellow sunset over inky black water and a hillside covered in oil extraction equipment. A tiny sailboat floats at the coastline

In #OilBeach I tried to envision what it will mean for this geography if/when #oil departs:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

#ports #shipping #energy #LosAngeles #conservation #Biodiversity #EnvHist

Anyway, this was all stuff I knew nothing about when I crash-landed in LA for work in 2016. My utter bewilderment & attempt to orient myself eventually culminated in a book, which came out last year.

#ThinkingFromThinkingWith the geography here, #OilBeach is a peculiar natural history of the past half-century, focusing on seaport, ecology, & capital. Like this 🧵, also has a lot of pictures!
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

a #CargoShip on the horizon off #LosAngeles. ETA, my pic, December 2022

#ThinkingFromThinkingWith #OilBeach #supplyChain

Blue water, bright orange sky, a boxy ship on the water just to left of orange setting sun

"The #military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future #climate wars. At the same time, the US DoD is largest single #energy consumer in the US and the world's largest institutional #GHG emitter."

(Anyone who's read the intro to #OilBeach will know that I took one of Crawford's earlier reports on this topic to heart!)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047487/the-pentagon-climate-change-and-war/

🛢️ 🍌 A nice review of #OilBeach has come in from Choice (American Library Association):

"harbors are regions of complex and global interactions between humans and their environment, complicating #biodiversity #conservation and restoration efforts... Highly recommended."

#Shipping #EnvHist @sts #STS @geography @commodon #Commodon #HistSTM #oil #energy #pollution #ClimateCrisis #ToxicLA #CounterPort @bookstodon