Burning matters : life, labor, and e-waste pyropolitics in Ghana / Peter C. Little.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Little, Peter C., author.

Series:

Global and comparative ethnography.

Global and comparative ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scrap metal industry--Employees--Health and hygiene--Ghana--Accra.

Scrap metal industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In Burning Matters, Peter C. Little examines the cultural, economic, and environmental health dimensions of electronic waste in Africa. Little draws on social science research to share the lived experiences of e-waste workers who burn bundles of electrical cables to extract copper, a practice that has raised concerns about toxic exposures to workers and urban environmental contamination. Little argues that interventions need to account for urban-rural migration and the sustainability of rural communities to reduce unnecessary toxic exposure.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Burning Matters

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Illustrations, Tables, and Maps

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From E-​Waste Ashes to Ethnographic Intervention

1. Amidst Global E-​Waste Trades and Green Neoliberalization

2. "We Are All North Here": Dagomba Labor Migrations and Meanings

3. Erasure, Demolition, and Violent Obsolescence in the Urban Margins

4. Embodied Burning, E-​Waste Epidemiology, and Toxic Postcolonial Corporality

5. Visualizing Agbogbloshie and Re-​envisioning E-​Waste Anthropology

6. Looming Uncertainties of Neoliberal Techno-​optimism

Conclusion: New Relations, Openings, and Burning Matters

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-093458-1

0-19-093457-3

OCLC:

1258041721