Economies of Recycling (eBook, ePUB)

The Global Transformation of Materials, Values and Social Relations
Redaktion: Alexander, Catherine; Reno, Joshua

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780321974
• Artikelnr.: 38347399

Autorenporträt

Catherine Alexander is a professor of anthropology at Durham University. Joshua Reno is an assistant professor of anthropology at Binghamton University.

Inhaltsangabe

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