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Histories of the dustheap : waste, material cultures, social justice / edited by Stephanie Foote and Elizabeth Mazzolini.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rban and industrial environments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects.
- Refuse and refuse disposal.
- Refuse and refuse disposal--Political aspects.
- Waste products--Social aspects.
- Waste products.
- Waste products--Political aspects.
- Material culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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 States6 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-63778-2
- 0-262-30569-0
- OCLC:
- 813844876
- Publisher Number:
- 40021508759
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