Polluted politics : the development of an Israeli-Palestinian e-waste economy / John-Michael Davis and Yaakov Garb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, John-Michael, author.

Garb, Yaakov, author.

Series:

Global Middle East (Cambridge, England) ; 27.

The Global Middle East ; [27]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic waste--Political aspects--Palestine.

Electronic waste.

Electronic waste--Political aspects--Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 255 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This book describes the politically charged afterlife of Israeli electronics gathered by and processed in a cluster of rural Palestinian villages that has emerged as an informal regional e-waste hub. As with many such hubs throughout the global South, rudimentary recycling practices represent a remarkable entrepreneurial means of livelihood amidst poverty and constraint, that generates staggering damage to local health and the environment, with tensions between these reaching a breaking point. John-Michael Davis and Yaakov Garb draw on a decade of community-based action research with and within these villages to contextualise the emergence, realities and future options of the Palestinian hub within both the geo-political realities of Israel's occupation of the West Bank as well as shifting understandings of e-waste and recycling dynamics and policies globally. Their stories and analysis are a poignant window into this troubled region and a key sustainability challenge in polarized globalized world"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

The emergence of e-waste hubs

The West Line e-waste economy

Crude portrayals, crude proposals

Co-creating e-waste hub futures

Can tails wag the dog? A hub-driven approach to e-waste reform

E-waste burning: causes, consequences, and corrections

The toxic elephant in the room

Border frictions: formalizing the Palestinian e-waste industry?

Open questions, opening futures

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781009483629