Global Garbage: Urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment (Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism)

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and garbage in locations such as Beirut, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Naples, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran. In particular, the book examines how, and under what conditions, contemporary imaginaries of excess, waste, and abandonment perpetuate – but also sometimes counter – the imbalances of power that are frequently associated with the global metropolitan condition. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to the fields of anthropology, architecture, film and media studies, geography, urban studies, sociology, and cultural analysis. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements 1 Globalization, garbage, and the urban environment PART I Waste 2 Trashtopia: global garbage/art in Francisco de Pájaro and Daniel Canogar 3 Dirty familiars: colonial encounters in African cities 4 Waste not, want not: garbage and the philosopher of the dump (Waste Land and Estamira) 5 The paradox of waste: Rio de Janeiro’s Praça XV Flea Market 6 Waste streams and garbage publics in Los Angeles and Detroit PART II Excess 7 Leftover space, invisibility, and everyday life: rooftops in Iran 8 Writing rubbish about Naples: the global media, post-politics, and the garbage crisis of an (extra-)ordinary city 9 Dirt poor/filthy rich: urban garbage from Radiant City to abstention 10 Under the spectacle: viewing trash in the streets of Central, Hong Kong PART III Abandonment 11 Geospatial detritus: mapping urban abandonment 12 Waste and value in urban transformation: reflections on a post-industrial ‘wasteland’ in Manchester 13 On Beckton Alp: Iain Sinclair, garbage, and ‘obscenery’ 14 Disposable architecture – reinterpreting ruins in the age of globalization: the case of Beirut References Index Edited By Christoph Lindner And Miriam Meissner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.