| Summary: | International audience To get rid of the oil success stories, this book offers a history of the territories sacrificed to oil refining and petrochemical industries. Using new sources, it sheds light on the damage and struggles for health in the 20th century, from Japan to Canada, among workers in Italian industrial cities (Taranto, Sardinia, Sicily), among fishermen and farmers in the "Trente Pollueuses" (the Fos / Etang de Berre area, the Lacq gas basin), and among American First Nations and minorities affected by environmental inequalities in Louisiana.These different areas tell us a common story: that of delegitimized populations, whose complaints are systematically disqualified as unscientific. However, they have managed to mobilize and produce knowledge to challenge the entrepreneurial strategies threatening their living spaces. This book thus exposes the social tension that reigns between the defense of living environments and economic profits, between health and employment, between the logics of subsistence and the logics of petrolization.A strikingly topical work at a time of deindustrialization of oil-producing regions, conflicts over decarbonization of contemporary societies, and at a time when the Lubrizol disaster has reactivated questions about the health effects of oil derivatives. Pour en finir avec les success stories pétrolières, voici une histoire des territoires sacrifiés à la transformation des hydrocarbures. Elle éclaire, à partir de sources nouvelles, les dégâts et les luttes pour la santé au XXe siècle, du Japon au Canada, parmi les travailleurs et travailleuses des enclaves industrielles italiennes (Tarento, Sardaigne, Sicile), auprès des pêcheurs et des paysans des « Trente Ravageuses » (la zone de Fos / l’étang de Berre, le bassin gazier de Lacq), ou encore au sein des Premières Nations américaines et des minorités frappées par les inégalités environnementales en Louisiane.Ces différents espaces nous racontent une histoire commune : celle de populations délégitimées, dont les ...
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