My PhD project attempts to answer the question "Why is Agent Orange a forgotten issue?" and seek ways to un/forget it. I ask this question with the careful consideration that this forgetting is not simply a wilful loss of memory but rather a complex framework of structures that enabled it. I unpack this structure in my PhD thesis by examining unchallenged discourses of Agent Orange, including war negotiations, scientific uncertainty, moral responsibility, legal liability and legal temporality. 

I use post/material feminist philosophy such as Karen Barad's diffractive methodology to untangle the multidisciplinary and multinational nature of the Agent Orange problem, allowing previously overlooked, marginalised, and forgotten stories of victims to come to light. Their stories of war, nature, pain, resilience, and spirituality... imbue critical lessons for our futures. Because their legacies will not be delegated as desecrated nature in the wake of war, but rather, they will be seen as hard-won lessons toward ecological justice.