THE PARTS PER MILLION PROJECT

You can’t measure war in parts per million — except when you can.

This research responds to grassroots calls for research that informs pragmatic routes to recourse, recovery, and survival from military contamination. Yet, scientific knowledge rarely achieves the reparative justice it promises. One side of this research distributes information about war’s measurable impacts. The other side of this project undermines the first by showing lived experiences that exceed the bounds of scientific and legal frameworks. 

The political commitment of this work is to try measuring war to the extent that it is possible — this is an attempt at crowding the formal record to prevent institutionalized erasure — while simultaneously embracing the failure of this process as a space for honoring and centering those truths of war that are simply immeasurable. This dialectic project remains ambivalent, speaking back against itself by participating in two epistemologies at once.