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Week of December 3, 2007

BHOPAL DISASTER - December 3, 2007
News Item: In 1984, a Union Carbide pesticide plant released poisonous gas in Bhopal, India killing thousands of citizens. Many more suffered severe health problems. Union Carbide is a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company.

 

Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders
By Kim Fortun. University of Chicago Press, 2001
Call Number: HV553 .F65 2007 (At JUPITER - May be borrowed using ILL services)

The Bhopal Tragedy: Language, Logic, and Politics in the Production of a Hazard
By William Bogard. Westview Press, 1989
Call Number: HD7269 .C45 I5223 1989

Five Past Midnight in Bhopal
By Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro. Warner Books, 2002
Call Number: HD7269 .C452 I525513 2002

A Killing Wind: Inside Union Carbide and the Bhopal Catastrophe
By Dan Kurzman. McGraw-Hill, 1987
Call Number: HD7269 .C452 I525 1987

Litigating Disaster (DVD)
A film by: Ilan Ziv. First Run/Icarus Films, 2004
Call Number: HD7269 .C452 L58 2004 (In the Boca Raton MEDIA CENTER)