Histories of the Dustheap - Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice torrent

Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice



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English | 291 pages | MIT Press (September 28, 2012) | 0262017997 | PDF | 16 Mb

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.

Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Our responsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibility toward the systems that make those objects. Histories of the Dustheap uses garbage, waste, and refuse to investigate the relationships between various systems--the local and the global, the economic and the ecological, the historical and the contemporary--and shows how this most democratic reality produces identities, social relations, and policies.