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Histories of the dustheap : waste, material cultures, social justice / / edited by Stephanie Foote and Elizabeth Mazzolini



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Titolo: Histories of the dustheap : waste, material cultures, social justice / / edited by Stephanie Foote and Elizabeth Mazzolini Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
Disciplina: 363.72/8
Soggetto topico: Refuse and refuse disposal - Social aspects
Refuse and refuse disposal - Political aspects
Waste products - Social aspects
Waste products - Political aspects
Material culture
Altri autori: FooteStephanie  
MazzoliniElizabeth <1973->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Urban and Industrial Environments Series; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Histories of the Dustheap; Part I The Subjectivities of Garbage; 1 Darker Shades of Green: Love Canal, Toxic Autobiography, and American Environmental Writing; 2 "The Most Radical View of the Whole Subject": George E. Waring Jr., Domestic Waste, and Women's Rights; 3 Enviroblogging: Clearing Green Space in a Virtual World; Part II The Places of Garbage; 4 Missing New Orleans: Tracking Knowledge and Ignorance through an Urban Hazardscape
5 What Gets Buried in a Small Town: Toxic E-Waste and Democratic Frictions in the Crossroads of the United States6 The Garbage Question on Top of the World; Part III The Cultural Contradictions of Garbage; 7 Purification or Profit: Milwaukee and the Contradictions of Sludge; 8 The Rising Tide against Plastic Waste: Unpacking Industry Attempts to Influence the Debate; 9 Time Out of Mind: The Animation of Obsolescence in The Brave Little Toaster; Conclusion: Object Lessons; About the Contributors; Index; Series List
Sommario/riassunto: This volume provides 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Histories of the dustheap  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-63778-2
0-262-30569-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824282303321
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