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This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region. It will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students in sustainability, development studies, discard studies, and social and cultural history.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Contemporary Cultural Perspectives on Discards in the Asia-Pacific Region 2. Caste, Hierarchy and Cultural Construction of Food (Waste?) 3. Environment by, with, and for the Citizens: Collective Identity Shaping the Community-Driven Solid Waste Management in Kerala, India 4. Polluted Histories, Clean Futures? Differing Scenarios for an Electronic Waste Circular Economy in China 5. What Type of Trash are You? Steering "Green" Citizenship and Self-Responsibility in Urban China 6. Becoming Visible: An Examination of Chen Qiulin's Farewell Poem (2002) and Jia Zhangke's Still Life (2006) 7. Individually and Collectively Grieving the Fukushima Dead at a Waste-Mountain: A Reading of Post-3/11 Novel 'Hikari no Yama [Mountain of Light]' by Japanese Monk-Writer Genyu Sokyu 8. Defining Food (and its Waste) 9. Waste Through Different Eyes: Multi-Sited Photovoice Explorations 10. Afterword: Planetary Potlatch: Scrutinizing the Moral Economy of Recycling
About the author
Viktor Pál is a Hungarian environmental historian, an Associate Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland, and the University of Ostrava, Czechia, and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of the book
Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary: An Economic History (2017), and with Stephen Brain, he has co-edited the collection of essays,
Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes. Myth, Propaganda, Reality (2019).
Iris Borowy is a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai University, China. She is also a founding director of the Center for the History of Global Development at that university. Her publications include
Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future: A History of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission), published in 2014.
Summary
This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region. It will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students in sustainability, development studies, discard studies, and social and cultural history.
