In this talk, Associate Professor of Anthropology Daniel Renfrew will share excerpts from his book, "Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis and Hope in Uruguay." He examines the social, political and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic. Drawing from a political ecology of health perspective, Renfrew situates the Uruguayan lead contamination crisis in relation to neoliberal reform, globalization and the resurgence of the political left in Latin America. He traces the rise of an environmental social justice movement and the local and transnational circulation of environmental ideologies and contested science.