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
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2012] |
| ©2012 | |
| 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 | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | ENVIRONMENT/General |
| Persona (resp. second.): | FooteStephanie |
| MazzoliniElizabeth <1973-> | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-283-63778-2 |
| 0-262-30569-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462144503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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