Little, Peter C.

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Name: Peter C. Little

Affiliation: Rhode Island College

Contact details: Rhode Island College
(401)456-2839
plittle@ric.edu

Statement of interest: Dr. Little’s anthropological research is focused largely on environmental health conflicts and political ecology. Little finds inspiration from the growing connections between anthropology, environmental studies, disaster studies, science and technology studies, and environmental justice activism. He is author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks (2014, New York University Press). His most recent work explores electronic waste politics in Ghana.

Geographical/topical area of interest: Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology, Social Theory, Industrial Pollution, Environmental Health Conflicts, Discard Studies, Electronic Waste, Ghana