Economies of recycling: the global transformation of materials, values and social relations 9781780321974, 9781780321967, 1780321961, 178032197X

"In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the largest export from the US to China was scrap. But despite th

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English Pages (viii, 304 pages) : illustrations Year 2012

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Catherine;Reno
Joshua

Table of contents :
Shoddy rags and relief blankets : perceptions of textile recycling in north India / Lucy Norris --
Death, the phoenix, and Pandora : transforming things and values in Bangladesh / Mike Crang ... (et al.) --
One cycle to bind them all? : geographies of nuclearity in the uranium fuel cycle / Romain Garcier --
The shadow of the global network : e-waste flows to China / Xin Tong and Jici Wang --
Devaluing the dirty work : gendered trash work in participatory Dakar / Rosalind Fredericks --
Stitching curtains, grinding plastic : social and material transformation in Buenos Aires / Karen Ann Faulk --
Trash ties : urban politics, economic crisis and Rio de Janerio's garbage dump / Kathleen M. Millar --
Sympathy and its boundaries : necropolitics, labour and waste on the Hooghly river / Laura Bear --
'No junk for Jesus' : redemptive economies and value conversions in Lutheran medical aid / Britt Halvorson --
Evident excess : material deposits and narcotics surveillance in the USA / Joshua Reno --
Remont : work in progress / Catherine Alexander.

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