Culture And Waste

Author : Gay Hawkins,Stephen Muecke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742519821

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Culture and Waste by Gay Hawkins,Stephen Muecke Pdf

Waste is a key category for understanding cultural value. It is not just the 'bad stuff' we dispose of; it is material we constantly struggle to redeem. Cultures seem to spend as much energy reclassifying negativity as they do on establishing the negative itself. The huge tertiary sector devoted to waste management converts garbage into money, while ecological movements continue to stress human values and 'the natural.' But the problems waste poses are never simply economic or environmental. The international contributors to this collection ask us to pause and consider the complex ways in which value is created and destroyed. Their diverse approaches of ethics, philosophy, cultural studies, and politics are at the forefront of a new field of 'ecohumanites.'

Author : Gillian Pye
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Integrated solid waste management
ISBN : 3039115537

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Trash Culture by Gillian Pye Pdf

In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. The culture of excess underlying these concerns is particularly evident in the issue of trash, which for environmentalists has been a negative category, heavily implicated in the destruction of the natural world. However, in the context of the arts, trash has long been seen as a rich aesthetic resource and, more recently, particularly under the influence of anthropology and archaeology, it has been explored as a form of material culture that articulates modes of identity construction. In the context of such shifting, often ambiguous attitudes to the obsolete and the discarded, this book offers a timely insight into their significance for representations of social and personal identity. The essays in the book build on scholarship in cultural theory, sociology and anthropology that suggests that social and personal experience is embedded in material culture, but they also focus on the significance of trash as an aesthetic resource. The volume illuminates some of the ways in which our relationship to trash has influenced and is influenced by cultural products including art, architecture, literature, film and museum culture.

Author : MEHITA IQANI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1438480180

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Garbage in Popular Culture by MEHITA IQANI Pdf

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

Author : David M. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857852342

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Food Waste by David M. Evans Pdf

In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches. Using ethnographic material to explore global issues, Food Waste unearths the processes that lie behind the volume of food currently wasted by households and consumers. The author demonstrates how waste arises as a consequence of households negotiating the complex and contradictory demands of everyday life, explores the reasons why surplus food ends up in the bin, and considers innovative solutions to the problem. Drawing inspiration from studies of consumption and material culture alongside social science perspectives on everyday life and the home, this lively yet scholarly book is ideal for students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines, along with anyone interested in understanding the food that we waste.

Author : Samuel Amago
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813945934

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Basura by Samuel Amago Pdf

Basura considers the efforts of artists, writers, and designers for whom waste is a means to withstand cultural erasure.

Author : Mehita Iqani
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438480190

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Garbage in Popular Culture by Mehita Iqani Pdf

Garbage in Popular Culture is the first book to explicitly link media discourse, consumer culture and the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society. It makes an original contribution to the areas of consumer culture studies, visual culture, media and communications, and cultural theory through a critical analysis of the ways in which waste and garbage are visually communicated in the public realm. Mehita Iqani examines three key themes evident in the global representation of garbage: questions of agency and activism, cultures of hedonism and luxury, and anxieties about devastation and its affect. Each theme is explored through a number of case studies, including zero-waste recycling campaigns communicated on Instagram, to fine art made with waste, popular entertainment festivals, tropical beach tourism, and films about oil spills and plastic waste in oceans. Iqani argues that we need a new vocabulary to think about what it means to be human in this new age of consumption-produced waste, and reflects on what rubbish allows us to learn about our relationship with the natural world.

Author : Maite Zubiaurre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 0826522289

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Talking Trash by Maite Zubiaurre Pdf

Provocative writing about the stunning variety of contemporary litter, its meanings, and its artistic possibilities, profusely illustrated with 163 color images

Author : Susan Strasser
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0805065121

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Waste and Want by Susan Strasser Pdf

Originally published: New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.

Author : Gay Hawkins,Stephen Muecke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-12-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780742576049

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Culture and Waste by Gay Hawkins,Stephen Muecke Pdf

Waste is a key category for understanding cultural value. It is not just the 'bad stuff' we dispose of; it is material we constantly struggle to redeem. Cultures seem to spend as much energy reclassifying negativity as they do on establishing the negative itself. The huge tertiary sector devoted to waste management converts garbage into money, while ecological movements continue to stress human values and 'the natural.' But the problems waste poses are never simply economic or environmental. The international contributors to this collection ask us to pause and consider the complex ways in which value is created and destroyed. Their diverse approaches of ethics, philosophy, cultural studies, and politics are at the forefront of a new field of 'ecohumanites.'

Author : Gay Hawkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0742530132

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The Ethics of Waste by Gay Hawkins Pdf

Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life_from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don't? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this 'public conscience' affect policy? Placing these ideas into historical, social, and cultural perspective, this thoughtful book seeks ways to change ecologically destructive practices without recourse to guilt, moralism, or despair.

Author : Carl A. Zimring,William L. Rathje, Consulting Editor
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1225 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452266671

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Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste by Carl A. Zimring,William L. Rathje, Consulting Editor Pdf

Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data com­piled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing to comprise an outstanding reference for academic and public libraries.

Author : Max Liboiron,Josh Lepawsky
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262369510

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Discard Studies by Max Liboiron,Josh Lepawsky Pdf

An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies looks at wider systems of waste and wasting to explore how some materials, practices, regions, and people are valued or devalued, becoming dominant or disposable. In this book, Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky argue that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. They show how the theories and methods of discard studies can be applied in a variety of cases, many of which do not involve waste, trash, or pollution. Liboiron and Lepawsky consider the partiality of knowledge and offer a theory of scale, exploring the myth that most waste is municipal solid waste produced by consumers; discuss peripheries, centers, and power, using content moderation as an example of how dominant systems find ways to discard; and use theories of difference to show that universalism, stereotypes, and inclusion all have politics of discard and even purification—as exemplified in “inclusive” efforts to broaden the Black Lives Matter movement. Finally, they develop a theory of change by considering “wasting well,” outlining techniques, methods, and propositions for a justice-oriented discard studies that keeps power in view.

Author : Tadeusz Rachwał
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 8389281562

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Rubbish, Waste and Litter by Tadeusz Rachwał Pdf

Author : Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136165160

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Waste and Consumption by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi Pdf

This book examines the link between waste and consumption through a cultural approach that integrates environmental concerns with reflections on the role that consumption has come to occupy in our contemporary capitalist societies. The mutual relationship between capitalism and consumption is addressed along with early critiques of industrialization that exposed environmental problems. Toxic waste and its illegal dumping are examined, along with the problem of abuse of poorere areas and nations when it comes to disposing of toxic material. The question of solutions to the problems created by consumption and waste is raised and the claim is advanced that we do not necessarily need to stop being consumers. This timely book can be used in introductory sociology, social problems, and classes on environment and sustainability. This book is part of the Framing 21st Century Social Issues Series which offers readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60 page or shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html. For instructors teaching a wide range of courses in the social sciences, the Routledge Social Issues Collection now offers the best of both worlds: originally written short texts that provide "overviews" to important social issues as well as teachable excerpts from larger works previously published by Routledge and other presses.

Author : John Scanlan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1861892225

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On Garbage by John Scanlan Pdf

On Garbage is the first book to examine the detritus of Western culture in full range—not only material waste and ruin, but also residual or "broken" knowledge and the lingering remainders of cultural thought systems.