From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary

Name: From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary
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ISBN: 9780253348388

ISBN-10: 0253348382

ISBN-13: 9780253348388

Edition: 2007 (Annotated)

Authors: Zsuzsa Gille

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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 analysis focuses on the struggle between a Budapest-based chemical company and the small rural village that became its toxic dump site.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/4/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.45" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.210

Zsuzsa Gille grew up in socialist Hungary and was active in semi-legal environmental and peace movements. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign.




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