Thankfully, in the end the atmosphere calmed down and the Quebec team felt safe enough to play a quick game of soccer with some of the men. I sat while they played with four afghans in the park. I tried to figure the game of cards they were playing. While we politely chatted exchang...
but the possibility of the refinery malfunctioning. Such moments arose on several occasions during my fieldwork, and they shed light on another way in which the residents’ understanding of danger is guided by the temporalities of sudden disaster vs. the slow violence of pollution. The neighbors ...