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AbstractThis essay zooms in on an unloved stretch of Philadelphia's tidal Schuylkill River, long home to the largest petroleum refinery on the United States' East Coast, the cradle of petromodernity. In the aftermath of the refinery's spectacular explosion in 2019, city officials were confronted by the data poverty in this sacrifice zone where many residents live in analog poverty. The essay contributes to our understanding of urban waters in two ways. First, it uncovers the shape and texture of the sacrifices made to dry out and urbanize wetlands, exploring how and by whom this former marshland has been made into what Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls a 'forgotten place'. Second, it presents a set of interrelated community‐based participatory research projects designed to document the inhabitants' lived experiences—glaringly absent from existing environmental data collected across different levels of governance and largely missing from the historical record. The essay explores embodied research methods and storytelling as tools to build and sustain academic–community alliances.

COVER -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Environmental Humanities across Times, Disciplines, and Research Practices by Carolyn Fornoff, Patricia Eunji Kim, and Bethany Wiggin -- Part I. Variations and Methods -- Chapter 1. Time Bomb: Pessimistic Approaches to Climate Change Studies by Jason Bell and Frank Pavia -- Chapter 2. Earth's Changing Climate: A Deep-Time Geoscience Perspective by Jane E. Dmochowski and David A. D. Evans -- Chapter 3. Deep Time and Landscape History: How Can Historical Particularity Be Translated? by Ömür Harmansah -- ETUDE 1. A Period of Animate Existence -- Chapter 4. Staging Climate: A Period of Animate Existence and the Global Imaginary by Marcia Ferguson -- Chapter 5. A Period of Animate Existence by Troy Herion, Mimi Lien, and Dan Rothenberg -- Chapter 6. Conversations with Dan Rothenberg, Director of A Period of Animate Existence by Bethany Wiggin -- Part II. Variations, Fast and Slow -- Chapter 7. Time Machines and Timelapse Aesthetics in Anthropocenic Modernism by Charles M. Tung -- Chapter 8. Fishing for the Anthropocene: Time in Ocean Governance by Jennifer E. Telesca -- ETUDE 2. WetLand -- Chapter 9. WetLand Manifesto by Mary Mattingly -- Chapter 10. Figuring WetLand by Kate Farquhar -- Part III. Repetitions and Variations -- Chapter 11. Vanishing Sounds: Thoreau and the Sixth Extinction by Wai Chee Dimock -- Chapter 12. Hoopwalking: Human Rewilding and Anthropocene Chronotypes by Paul Mitchell -- Chapter 13. Dirt Eating in the Disaster by Iemanjá Brown -- ETUDE 3. Futurity Unknown -- Chapter 14. The Memory of Plants: Genetics, Migration, and the Construction of the Future by Beatriz Cortez -- Coda by Carolyn Fornoff, Patricia Eunji Kim, and Bethany Wiggin -- Contributors.

AbstractIn this comparative and collaborative collection of essays we work through contemporary and historical practices of governing urban waters in Philadelphia and Mumbai. Taken together, the essays in this collection argue that events of enduring harm visited upon racialized, marginalized citizens are produced through slow bureaucratic processes of aversion, ambiguation and ambivalence, perpetuated in and through regulatory regimes, water quality standards, legal discourses and everyday practices in the city. These practices entangle racialized and poorer populations in situations of durable and everyday harm and are central to the creation, maintenance and reproduction of vulnerable and disposable human and non‐human life in the city.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Multilingual Soundings in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic: "Differences of Manners, Languages and Extraction, Was Now No More"? -- Part 1 New World, New Religions -- Chapter 1 " Wie ein Nimrod / Like a Nimrod" Babel, Confusion, and Coercive Bilingualism in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic -- Chapter 2 The Moravian Threat to the Old World Establishment -- Chapter 3 Women, Migration, and Moravian Mission Negotiating Pennsylvania's Colonial Landscapes -- Part 2 The Languages of Education and Established Religions -- Chapter 4 Benjamin Franklin, the Philadelphia Academy, Halle, and Göttingen -- Chapter 5 German or English? Halle's Pastors in Pennsylvania and the Search for the Right Language, 1742–1820 -- Part 3 The Languages of Race and (Anti-) Slavery -- Chapter 6 Writing Against Slavery Germantown, Quakers, and the Ethnic Origins of Early Antislavery Thought -- Chapter 7 " Ein schrecklicher Zustand" Race, Slavery, and Gradual Emancipation in Pennsylvania -- Chapter 8 How the Quakers Worked with Moravians, Germans, the French, the British, and Enslaved and Free Africans All in the Antislavery Cause -- Part 4 The Languages of Wood and Stone -- Chapter 9 Communicating Through Wood and Stone Building a New World Identity in Pennsylvania -- Chapter 10 Germans in Colonial Philadelphia Ethnicity, Hybridity, and the Material World -- Contributors -- Index