Economies of Recycling The Global Transformation of Materials, Values and Social Relations

Name: Economies of Recycling The Global Transformation of Materials, Values and Social Relations
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ISBN: 9781780321943

ISBN-10: 1780321945

ISBN-13: 9781780321943

Edition: 2012

Authors: Catherine Alexander, Joshua Reno, Laura Bear

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For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified or analysed. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with overviews of international material flows, 'Economies of Recycling' radically changes the way we understand global and local economies as well as the new social relations and identities created by recycling processes.Following global material chains, this groundbreaking book reveals astonishing connections between persons, households,…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 8/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880



Introduction




Global Waste Flows



'No Junk for Jesus': Redemptive Economies and Value Conversions in Lutheran Medical Relief Agencies




Pandora and the Phoenix: end-of-life ships and secondary markets




Economies of Nuclearity: Morality and Energopolitics




The Global Shadow Network: Transnational Flows of E-Waste and its Localization in Chin




The Ethics of Waste Labour



Valuing the Dirty Work: Gendered Trashwork in Participatory Daka




Stitching curtains, grinding plastic: the transformation of workers and things in Buenos Aire s- Karen Faulk



Contested meanings of work in Rio de Janeiro's recycling economy




Sympathy and its Material Boundaries: Necropolitics, Labor and Waste on the Hooghly River




Traces of former lives



Economies of moral fiber: materializing the ambiguities of recycling charity into aid blanket




Evident excess: material deposits and American narcotics surveillance




Remont: works in progress



Afterword