From the cult of waste to the trash heap of history : the politics of waste in socialist and postsocialist Hungary / Zsuzsa Gille.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gille, Zsuzsa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--Hungary.

Environmental policy.

Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects--Hungary.

Refuse and refuse disposal.

Post-communism--Hungary.

Post-communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Politics of waste in socialist and postsocialist Hungary

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Zsuzsa Gille combines social history, cultural analysis, and environmental sociology to advance a long overdue social theory of waste in this study of waste management, Hungarian state socialism, and post--Cold War capitalism. From 1948 to the end of the Soviet period, Hungary developed a cult of waste that valued reuse and recycling. With privatization the old environmentally beneficial, though not flawless, waste regime was eliminated, and dumping and waste incineration were again promoted. Gille's a

Contents:

Was state socialism wasteful?

Toward a social theory of waste

Discipline and recycle (1948-1974)

Metallic socialism

The primitive accumulation of waste in metallic socialism

Reform and reduce (1975-1984)

The efficiency model

The limits of efficiency

Privatize and incinerate (1985-present)

The chemical model

"Building a castle out of shit": the wastelands of the new Europe

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612078378

9781282078376

1282078372

9780253116925

0253116929

OCLC:

476140917

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32480 hdl