ABSTRACT

This paper provides a re-signification of industrial risk as a slow-burning issue (Mah [2017] “Environmental justice in the age of big data: challenging toxic blind spots of voice, speed, and expertise.” Environmental Sociology 3 (2): 122–133.), invisibly and violently diffusing across time and space and affecting relational entanglements between human and non-human components of risk landscapes. As an alternative to a planning approach based on quantitative and objective data, the authors propose to build strategic planning of riskscapes upon what they call small data, that is, the ensemble of qualitative and embodied data that can be gathered through street science (Corburn [2005]. Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice. Cambridge: MIT Press.) and toxic autobiographies (Armiero et al. [2019]. “Toxic Bios: Toxic Autobiographies – A Public Environmental Humanities Project.” Environmental Justice, 1–5. ). In order to discuss the potential role of both small data and toxic autobiographies in the planning field, the authors present the results of an ongoing empirical case study in Gela, a Sicilian town converted into one of the main Italian petrochemical poles in the 1960s by a multinational oil company. The authors analyse Gela’s risk landscapes through the perceptions of citizens and their initiatives to tackle environmental injustices. Finally, the authors argue that small data can provide a better understanding of the landscape of risk through four lenses that allow seeing the slow and diffused change brought by industrial risk: memories of injustice, memories of smell, trans-corporeal stories, and relational stories.

摘要

本文将工业风险重新定义为一个缓慢燃烧的问题（Mah [2017] “大数据时代的环境正义：挑战声音、速度和专业知识的有毒盲点。”环境社会学3 (2) : 122–133.)，无形而猛烈地跨越时间和空间扩散，影响风险景观中人类和非人类组成部分之间的关​​系纠缠。作为基于定量和客观数据的规划方法的替代方案，作者建议根据他们所谓的小数据，即可以通过街头科学收集的定性和具体数据的集合（Corburn [...] 2005].街头科学：社区知识和环境健康正义. 剑桥：麻省理工学院出版社）和有毒自传（Armiero 等人 [2019]。“有毒生物：有毒自传——公共环境人文项目。”环境正义, 1–5。）。为了讨论小数据和有毒自传在规划领域的潜在作用，作者展示了在 Gela 正在进行的实证案例研究的结果，Gela 是一个西西里小镇，在 1960 年代被一个主要的意大利石化极点转变为意大利的主要石化极点之一。跨国石油公司。作者通过公民的看法及其解决环境不公正问题的举措来分析 Gela 的风险状况。最后，作者认为，小数据可以通过四个视角更好地了解风险格局，这些视角可以让我们看到工业风险带来的缓慢而分散的变化：不公正的记忆、气味的记忆、超体故事和关系故事.