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Culture and Waste - The Creation and Destruction of Value

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Informationen zum Autor Stephen Muecke is professor of creative writing at Flinders University, and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Recent books are Bruno Latour and the Humanities, edited with Rita Felski, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020 and The Mother’s Day Protest and other Fictocritical Essays, Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016. Klappentext 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.' Zusammenfassung 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.' Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Cultural Economies of Waste Chapter 2 Out of Australia Chapter 3 Miasma Chapter 4 Invidious Distinction: Waste Difference and Classy Stuff Chapter 5 Down the Drain: Shit and the Politics of Disturbance Chapter 6 Decolonising the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies Chapter 7 Psychic Waste: Freud, Fechner and the Principle of Constancy Chapter 8 Hollywood's Pacific Junk: The Wreckage of Colonial History in Six Days and Seven Nights and Rapa Nui Chapter 9 Trash as Archive, Trash as Enlightenment Chapter 10 Devastation

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Authors Gay Muecke Hawkins
Assisted by Gay Hawkins (Editor), Hawkins Gay (Editor), Stephen Muecke (Editor), Muecke Stephen (Editor)
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 24.02.2003
 
EAN 9780742519824
ISBN 978-0-7425-1982-4
No. of pages 160
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general, Human Geography

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