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Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society.
List of contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1: Hervé Corvellec;David Bevan: Introduction: Towards a Critical Waste-Based Epistemology
- Part I. Materiality
- 2: Josh Lepawsky: Weaponizing Waste
- 3: Jennie Olofsson: On the Socio-Material Practices of Leakage Control: Waste Infrastructures and Bodily Discharges
- 4: Taru Lehtokunnas;Elina Närvänen: From Thin to Thick Relationships with Objects: Constituting Subjectivity through Consumer-Object Folds
- 5: Olli Pyyhtinen;Alma Onali;Stylianos Zavos: Waste as Posthuman Critique
- Part II. Society
- 6: Nadine Arnold: Feeding the Critique of Standards with Waste: Exclusion and Reactions in Food Systems
- 7: Marisa Solomon: From Refuse to Refusal: Disrupting Racial Capitalism's Wasting Relations
- 8: Jutta Guttberlet;Isabella de Carvalho Vallin: Grassroots Social Innovation of Waste Pickers as Critique of the Existing Social Order
- 9: Hervé Corvellec: A Critique of Heroic Efficacy
- Part III. Economy
- 10: Zsuzsa Gille: Waste as a Critique of the Concept of the Economy
- 11: Melanie Samson: Not at Our Disposal: Reclaimers' Critique of Disposability Capitalism
- 12: Patrik Zapata;Marí a José Zapata Campos: Waste Commoning as Critical Answer to the Property Question
- 13: Myra J. Hird;Gabriella Dee: Mother Earth and Her Three Little Wasteful Pigs: Waste Reduction through Degrowth
- Part IV. Temporality
- 14: Kun Wang;Raymond Yu Wang: Waste, Temporalities, and Critique on Event-Based Environment Justice: A Political Ecology of Slow Violence of China's Production Wastescapes
- 15: Zachary Riebeling: Waste and the Historical Future
- 16: Dietmar Offenhuber: Wasting to Slow Down Time: The Paradox of Informational Waste
- 17: Kelly Alexander;Joshua O. Reno: Attempting to Waste Time: An Exploration of Freewheeling Creativity in Kitchens and Gaming Rooms
- Index
About the author
Hervé Corvellec has over 20 years of experience in interdisciplinary research environments, during which he has conducted research about railroad planning, risk in public transportation, and wind power siting. This general interest in infrastructures has guided him to focus on the governance, planning, and organizing of waste management; wasting behaviours and practices; waste ethics; waste narratives and discourses; and social-scientific theories of waste. He has published his research about waste and the circular economy in waste journals, as well as journals within the fields of accounting, cultural geography, management, organization theory, and social anthropology.
Summary
Waste as a Critique reveals how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating 21st century society.
