Histories of the dustheap : waste, material cultures, social justice / edited by Stephanie Foote and Elizabeth Mazzolini.
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TextSeries: Urban and industrial environmentsPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (vi, 291 pages) : mapContent type: - text
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- Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects
- Refuse and refuse disposal -- Political aspects
- Waste products -- Social aspects
- Waste products -- Political aspects
- Material culture
- Déchets -- Élimination -- Aspect social
- Déchets -- Élimination -- Aspect politique
- Déchets -- Aspect social
- Déchets -- Aspect politique
- Culture matérielle
- material culture (discipline)
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Waste Management
- SCIENCE -- Environmental Science
- Material culture
- Refuse and refuse disposal -- Political aspects
- Refuse and refuse disposal -- Social aspects
- Abfallwirtschaft
- Soziale Gerechtigkeit
- Avfallshantering -- sociala aspekter
- Materiell kultur
- ENVIRONMENT/General
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- HD4482 .H57 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
The subjectivities of garbage. Darker shades of green : Love Canal, toxic autobiography, and American environmental writing / Richard Newman ; "The most radical view of the whole subject" : George E. Waring Jr., domestic waste, and women's rights / William Gleason ; Enviroblogging : clearing green space in a virtual world / Stephanie Foote -- The places of garbage. Missing New Orleans : tracking knowledge and ignorance through an urban hazardscape / Scott Frickel ; What gets buried in a small town : toxic e-waste and democratic frictions in the crossroads of the United States / Phaedra C. Pezzullo ; The garbage question on top of the world / Elizabeth Mazzolini -- The cultural contradictions of garbage. Purification or profit : Milwaukee and the contradictions of sludge / Daniel Schneider ; The rising tide against plastic waste : unpacking industry attempts to influence the debate / Jennifer Clapp ; Time out of mind : the animation of obsolescence in The brave little toaster / Marisol Cortez -- Conclusion : Object lessons / Stephanie Foote and Elizabeth Mazzolini.
This volume provides an examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.
English.
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