Culture and Waste : the Creation and Destruction of Value.

By:

Hawkins, Gay

Contributor(s):

Muecke, Stephen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (172 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780742576049
0742576043
1299790615
9781299790612
0742519813
9780742519817
0742519821
9780742519824

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture and Waste : The Creation and Destruction of Value.DDC classification:

LOC classification:

GN448.2 .C847 2002

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Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cultural Economies of Waste Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke; 1 Out of Australia David M. Halperin; 2 Miasma Michael Taussig; 3 Invidious Distinction: Waste, Difference, and Classy Stuff John Frow; 4 Down the Drain: Shit and the Politics of Disturbance Gay Hawkins; 5 Decolonizing the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies Deborah Bird Rose; 6 Psychie Waste: Freud, Fechner, and the Principle of Constancy Suzanne Raut.

7 Hollywood's Pacific junk: The Wreckage of Colonial History in Six Days and Seven Nights and Rapa Nui Jonathan Gil Harris and Anna Neill8 Trash as Archive, Trash as Enlightenment Patricia Yaeger; 9 Devastation Stephen Muecke; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors.

Summary: The international contributors to this collection ask us to pause and consider the complex ways in which value is created and destroyed. Their diverse approaches of ethics, philosophy, cultural studies, and politics are at the forefront of a new field of 'ecohumanites.'

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The international contributors to this collection ask us to pause and consider the complex ways in which value is created and destroyed. Their diverse approaches of ethics, philosophy, cultural studies, and politics are at the forefront of a new field of 'ecohumanites.'