Histories of the Dustheap : Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice.


Stephanie. Foote
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Omfang
1 online resource (303 pages)
Utgave
1st ed.
Opplysninger
Intro -- Urban and Industrial Environments Series -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Histories of the Dustheap -- Part I The Subjectivities of Garbage -- 1 Darker Shades of Green: Love Canal, Toxic Autobiography, and American Environmental Writing -- 2 "The Most Radical View of the Whole Subject": George E. Waring Jr., Domestic Waste, and Women's Rights -- 3 Enviroblogging: Clearing Green Space in a Virtual World -- Part II The Places of Garbage -- 4 Missing New Orleans: Tracking Knowledge and Ignorance through an Urban Hazardscape -- 5 What Gets Buried in a Small Town: Toxic E-Waste and Democratic Frictions in the Crossroads of the United States -- 6 The Garbage Question on Top of the World -- Part III The Cultural Contradictions of Garbage -- 7 Purification or Profit: Milwaukee and the Contradictions of Sludge -- 8 The Rising Tide against Plastic Waste: Unpacking Industry Attempts to Influence the Debate -- 9 Time Out of Mind: The Animation of Obsolescence in The Brave Little Toaster -- Conclusion: Object Lessons -- About the Contributors -- Index -- Series List.. - 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.
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ISBN
9780262305693
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