Joshua Reno: Economies of Recycling

Cover: 9781780321943 | Economies of Recycling | Joshua Reno | Taschenbuch | Paperback | 2012

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Beschreibung

For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified or analysed. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with overviews of international material flows, Economies of Recycling radically changes the way we understand global and local economies as well as the new social relations and identities created by recycling processes.

Following global material chains, this groundbreaking book reveals astonishing connections between persons, households, cities and global regions as objects are reworked, taken to pieces and traded. With case studies from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, China, the former Soviet Union, North America and Europe, this timely collection debunks common linear understandings of production, exchange and consumption and argues for a complete re-evaluation of North-South economic relationships.

Über den Autor

Catherine Alexander is a professor of anthropology at Durham University.

Joshua Reno is an assistant professor of anthropology at Binghamton University.

Zusammenfassung

Following global material chains, this groundbreaking book reveals astonishing connections between persons, households, cities and global regions as objects are reworked, taken to pieces and traded.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Catherine Alexander and Joshua Reno
Section One: Global waste flows
1. Shoddy rags and relief blankets: perceptions of textile recycling in north India - Lucy Norris
2. Death, the Phoenix and Pandora: transforming things and values in Bangladesh - Mike Crang, Ni cky Gregson, Farid Ahamed, Raihana Ferdous and Nasreen Akhter
3. One cycle to bind them all? Geographies of nuclearity in the uranium fuel cycle - Romain Garcier
4. The shadow of the global network: e-waste flows to China - Xin Tong, Jici Wang

Section Two: The ethics of waste labour
5. Devaluing the dirty work: gendered trash work in participatory Dakar - Rosalind Fredericks
6. Stitching curtains, grinding plastic: social and material transformation in Buenos Aires - Karen Ann Faulk
7. Trash ties: urban politics, economic crisis and Rio de Janeiro's garbage dump - Kathleen M. Millar
8. Sympathy and its boundaries: necropolitics, labour and waste on the Hooghly river - Laura Bear

Section Three: Traces of former lives
9. 'No junk for Jesus': redemptive economies and value conversions in Lutheran medical aid - Britt Halvorson
10. Evident excess: material deposits and narcotics surveillance in the USA - Joshua Reno
11. Remont: works in progress - Catherine Alexander

Afterword - David Graeber

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781780321943
ISBN-10:	1780321945
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Alexander, Catherine Reno, Joshua
Redaktion:	Reno, Joshua
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Maße:	216 x 140 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Joshua Reno
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.08.2012
Gewicht:	0,445 kg