1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790614503321

Autore

Stokes Raymond G

Titolo

The business of waste : Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the present / / Raymond G. Stokes, Roman Köster, Stephen C. Sambrook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : CUP, 2013

ISBN

9781139225663 (e-book)

9781107027213 (hbk.)

1-107-28965-3

1-139-89114-6

1-107-28914-9

1-107-29403-7

1-107-29019-8

1-107-29124-0

1-139-22566-9

1-107-29296-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 331 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KösterRoman <1975->

SambrookStephen C

Disciplina

363.7280941

Soggetti

Refuse and refuse disposal - Great Britain - History

Refuse and refuse disposal - Germany - History

Recycling (Waste, etc.) - Great Britain - History

Recycling (Waste, etc.) - Germany - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Cleansing services, 1945 to the 1960s : from societies of want to societies of plenty -- part II. Grappling with crisis : from the 1960s to 1980 -- part III. Reconceptualizing waste and conceptualizing waste management : from 1980 to the present.

Sommario/riassunto

The advent of consumer societies in the United Kingdom and West Germany after 1945 led to the mass 'production' of garbage. This book compares the social, cultural and economic fallout of the growing volume and changing composition of waste in the two countries from 1945 to the present through sustained attention to changes in the



business of handling household waste. Though the UK and Germany are similar in population density, degrees of urbanisation, and standardisation, the two countries took profoundly different paths from low-waste to throwaway societies, and more recently, towards the goal of 'zero-waste'. The authors explore evolving balances between public and private provision in waste services; the transformation of public cleansing into waste management; the role of government legislation and regulation; emerging conceptualisations of recycling and resource recovery; and the gradual shift of the industry's regulatory and business context from local to national and then to international.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910637800003321

Autore

Topdemir Kocyigit Oya

Titolo

Turkish Germans in Turkiye : From Their Children's Perspective

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Istanbul, Turkiye : , : Istanbul University Press, , 2022

©2022

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (150 p.)

Soggetti

Anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation titled “Transnational Experiences and the Meaning of Being ‘Turkish-German’”. I presented it at Istanbul University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology in 2017. It was based on the ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in Turkiye. I interviewed 45 people whose mothers were German and fathers Turkish. I found the participants using the snowball method. I carried out the research using the in-depth interview and participant observation technique. Thirty-one of them were women and the others were men. In this research, I aimed to reveal how the family experiences of parents with



different cultural backgrounds are evaluated by their children. In other words, I studied how being in a transnational family was perceived across generations.
There are not many studies in the literature showing the cultural dimensions of marriages, which have gradually increased between Turkish and German citizens, that focus on their children. This research includes striking findings in terms of war memory, high-skilled migrants and return migration, and experiences of transnational family, kinship, and identity, which are important phenomena in our present time. The research also reveals a transnational and unwritten common cultural history between Turkiye and Germany through mixed marriages that have increased as of the 1930s.
The book aims to make an original and important contribution to the national and international literature in terms of being based on ethnographic research, the framework of the subject, the sample (which also reflects the evaluations of different generations and siblings), and the results. It embodies the fact that the identity constructions of today’s “Turkish German” generation in Turkiye are closely related to the experiences of war, migration, and kinship that occupy an important place in familial memory.
As the children recounted their life stories, they focused on the familial experiences that largely shaped their personal stories. Among these experiences, especially from the Second World War (WWII), migration between Turkiye and Germany and kinship practices were the subjects that children focused on the most. I was able to see how they made sense of these experiences, and on the other hand, I had the opportunity to understand how they construct their own identities based on these meanings. As an anthropologist, it was unique for me to see the relationship between personal experiences, identification processes, and the histories of several previous generations.