Economies of recycling : the global transformation of materials, values and social relations / edited by Catherine Alexander and Joshua Reno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Catherine, editor.

Reno, Joshua, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Economic aspects.

Recycling (Waste, etc.).

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the largest export from the US to China was scrap. But despite the sheer scale of this global trade in used materials, it has yet to be clearly identified and examined. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with an overview of the international flow of materials, Economies of Recycling reveals the astonishing new social relations and identities created by recycling. It shows how marginal economies are producing social collectives and projects around local and global decay, often with waste labour bringing high monetary reward, as well as danger. This timely collection debunks the common linear understanding of production, exchange and consumption and argues for a complete re-evaluation of North-South economic relationships"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Shoddy rags and relief blankets : perceptions of textile recycling in north India / Lucy Norris

Death, the phoenix, and Pandora : transforming things and values in Bangladesh / Mike Crang ... (et al.)

One cycle to bind them all? : geographies of nuclearity in the uranium fuel cycle / Romain Garcier

The shadow of the global network : e-waste flows to China / Xin Tong and Jici Wang

Devaluing the dirty work : gendered trash work in participatory Dakar / Rosalind Fredericks

Stitching curtains, grinding plastic : social and material transformation in Buenos Aires / Karen Ann Faulk

Trash ties : urban politics, economic crisis and Rio de Janerio's garbage dump / Kathleen M. Millar

Sympathy and its boundaries : necropolitics, labour and waste on the Hooghly river / Laura Bear

'No junk for Jesus' : redemptive economies and value conversions in Lutheran medical aid / Britt Halvorson

Evident excess : material deposits and narcotics surveillance in the USA / Joshua Reno

Remont : work in progress / Catherine Alexander.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786613861535

9781350219823

1350219827

9781780321974

178032197X

9781283549080

1283549085

9781780321967

1780321961

OCLC:

806521117