From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History - The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary

Informationen zum Autor Zsuzsa Gille Klappentext Zsuzsa Gille combines social history, cultural analysis, and environmental sociology to advance a long overdue social theory of waste in this study of waste management, Hungarian state socialism, and post-Cold War capitalism. From 1948 to the end of the Soviet period, Hungary developed a cult of waste that valued reuse and recycling. With privatization the old environmentally beneficial, though not flawless, waste regime was eliminated, and dumping and waste incineration were again promoted. Gille's analysis focuses on the struggle between a Budapest-based chemical company and the small rural village that became its toxic dump site. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Was State Socialism Wasteful? 2. Toward a Social Theory of Waste Part 1. Discipline and Recycle (1948-1974) 3. Metallic Socialism 4. The Primitive Accumulation of Waste in Metallic Socialism Part 2. Reform and Reduce (1975-1984) 5. The Efficiency Model 6. The Limits of Efficiency Part 3. Privatize and Incinerate (1985-present) 7. The Chemical Model 8. "Building a Castle out of Shit": The Wastelands of the New Europe 9. Conclusion Notes Sources and References Index

Product details

• Authors: Zsuzsa Gille
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2007
• EAN: 9780253348388
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34838-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Framing the Global
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories