Meghal Perera explores how vendors reject and repurpose cold chain infrastructure in a fish market in Colombo, to suit their own understandings of freshness. www.roadsides.net/articles/8248

In her photo essay, @fizza7.bsky.social recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency, how the road built to connect them dismantled the world for the people of Ishkoman.

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In their Introduction to our new issue titled „Foodways“ @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly Kikon ask: „how do foodways and their socio-cultural-cosmological scaffoldings and infrastructure condition each other?“

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In "Ammonia Synthesis: Entering a Ubiquitous Chemical Technosphere" Benjamin Steininger rethinks ammonia synthesis and follows its specific associated toxicities, putting particular emphasis on the ‘openness’ of industrial infrastructure. roadsides.net/collection-n...

In her article "Toxic Recurrences" Kaitlyn Rabach demonstrates that crumbling homes and toxic mould go unacknowledged in County Donegal, Ireland, as residents fear speaking out will devalue their property. roadsides.net/collection-n...

In "Repairing Toxic: Deferred Maintenance in Schools" Margaret Tebbe and Fred Ariel Hernandez suggest how late-industrial ethnography can make visible some of the toxic hazards in Los Angeles school buildings. roadsides.net/collection-n...

In "Silica Trails: Turned Soils, Dusty Lungs" Juliana Ramos Boldrin illustrates how silica exposure can damage health, but mitigating the harm could jeopardise Brazil’s dominance in silica export. roadsides.net/collection-n...

In "Toxic Struggles: Asbestos in Argentina’s Subway" Jorge Afarian reveals how Buenos Aires metro workers face illegal asbestos exposure and uncovers a troubling hierarchy between acceptable and unacceptable health risks. roadsides.net/collection-n...

Gulzat Baialieva considers how 80 tons of abandoned toxic waste in Kyrgyzstan trigger discussions on the toxic aftermath of neoliberal reforms and state neglect in her article "Seeking Environmental Justice Amid Post-Industrial Ruins."
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In his article "Wounded Landscape: Ambivalence and Toxic Extractivism in Indonesia" Fahmi R. Fahroji explores how a coal company’s seizure of rubber plantations in Indonesia has pushed farmers into toxic, low-paying jobs in the mining industry.
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In "Remediating Trails: Addressing Toxicities from Pitchblende Transportation" Laura Goyhenex links historical uranium ore spills on Indigenous land in Canada’s Northwest Territories to both toxic contamination and colonial power relations.
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In his article "Breaking Points: Mediated Contaminations, Infrastructural Toxicity" Andrea Bordoli examines mining-linked water contamination in Indigenous lands in Canada and proposes infrastructural toxicity as a lens to address settler-colonial violence.
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In "Toxic Infrastructures: An Introduction" Nikolaos Olma and Janine Hauer argue that toxic infrastructures provide a unique lens through which to capture the workings and effects of late industrialism across scales and temporalities. roadsides.net/collection-n...