The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies (Routledge International Handbooks)

__The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies__ offers a comprehensive survey of the new field of waste studies, critically interrogating the cultural, social, economic and political systems within which waste is created, managed and circulated. While scholars have not settled on a definitive categorization of what waste studies is, more and more researchers claim that there is distinct cluster of inquiries, concepts, theories and key themes that constitute this field. In this handbook the editors and contributors explore the research questions, methods and case studies preoccupying academics working in this field, in an attempt to develop a set of criteria by which to define and understand waste studies as an interdisciplinary field of study. This handbook will be invaluable to those wishing to broaden their understanding of waste studies and to students and practitioners of geography, sociology, anthropology, history, environment and sustainability studies. The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies Cover -1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Figures and Tables 9 Contributors 11 PART I: Introducing the field of waste studies 18 1. Introduction: waste studies as a field 20 A history of waste studies 21 The three sections of the handbook 28 Questions waste studies scholars ask 28 Methods 29 Cases 30 Directions for future research 32 References 33 2. At home with the waste scholar 37 Becoming a waste scholar 38 How does waste emerge? Where does waste come from? 40 What about political economy? 41 Methodology, science, data 43 Conclusion 44 Part II: Questions waste scholars ask 46 3. Matter out of place 48 Introduction 48 History 49 Power 50 Making trash in and out of place 51 Techniques for keeping matter in place 52 References 55 4. Waste and whiteness 58 Introduction 58 Racial capitalism and/as waste 60 Scientific practice and rubbish data 63 Life, risk, and dirty work in care and aid 65 Conclusion 67 References 69 5. Landfill life and the many lives of landfills 72 Introduction 72 History 73 Class, race, and the filling of space 75 Landfill rhythms 77 The end of landfill? 80 Conclusion 82 References 82 6. Reading the signs: some ways waste is framed in Tunisia 85 Introduction 85 Framing and mediation, or how we understand waste and what we can do with it 87 Three billboards 89 Some waste framings 91 Cleanliness 92 Citizenship and responsibility 93 Religion 95 Environment 97 Pure injunctions 100 Conclusion 101 Notes 103 References 103 7. Unmaking the made: the troubled temporalities of waste 105 Introduction 105 "Technofossils" and the historicity of waste 107 Colliding temporalities: the reverse logistics of unmaking and the closed-loop recycling vision 110 Temporalities of the made: product obsolescence in mass consumer societies 114 Temporal chasms: "afterlife", "aftercare", and waste legacies 115 Notes 117 References 117 8. Commodification and respect: Indigenous contributions to the sociology of waste 120 Introduction 120 Waste studies 121 Methods 123 Ethnographic background 124 Ethnographic findings 125 Food disposal as relational respect 125 Cultural change and the creation of waste 128 Discussion and conclusion 131 Notes 133 References 133 Part III: Methods waste scholars use 136 9. Comparative methods for the study of waste 138 Introduction 138 References 152 10. Teaching critical waste studies in higher education 156 Introduction 156 Approaches to teaching critical waste studies 156 Pedagogical approach 156 Multi- and interdisciplinarity 157 Choosing classroom resources 157 Co-creation of the learning agenda 158 Central theoretical concepts in critical waste studies 158 Waste/discards 158 Power 160 Materiality 161 Metabolism and flows 162 Waste governance and waste regimes 164 Conclusion 166 Note 167 References 167 11. Hunting for hidden treasures: a research methodology on China's informal recycling sector 171 Introduction 171 Official Chinese MSW data: reliability and obstacles for verification 173 Dimension, performance, and mechanisms of the IRS 175 A framework for planning, conducting, and assessing field surveys on China's IRS 178 Reviewing the significance of institutions for informal waste collection 182 Acknowledgments 183 Note 183 References 183 12. Waste metrics from the ground up 186 Introduction 186 Metrics used in the waste management field 188 Generation 188 Disposition 190 Disposal 190 Diversion 191 The tip scale as a measurement tool 193 Composition 194 Waste characterization 195 Composition assessed through regular operations 196 Capture 197 Contamination 198 Other perspectives: materials flow analysis and lifecycle analysis 200 Context and next steps 201 Defilation: a measure of waste's localized, ongoing harm 202 Possession and dispossession 203 Conclusion 206 Notes 206 References 207 13. The potential role of gamification: an innovative intervention method in waste studies 213 Introduction 213 Literature review 214 A brief overview of gamification 214 Gamification, pro-environmental behaviors, and waste: a nascent area of study 215 Case Studies 216 Conclusion 221 References 223 Part IV: Cases waste scholars investigate 226 14. The experience of nuclear waste 228 Introduction 228 Waste and experience 229 Inventing (extra)ordinary materials 230 Frames of waste experience 232 Nuclear waste as an experience of the technological condition 233 Nuclear waste as an experience of risk and danger 233 An experience of presence/absence 234 Encounters with nuclear waste 234 Conclusion 237 Acknowledgments 237 References 238 15. Uranium legacies and settler-colonial imaginaries: nuclear waste as history, proximity, and colonial matter 241 Introduction 241 Nuclear nation 242 Extractivist imaginaries 244 Waste as colonial matter 248 Living with radioactive pasts 250 Notes 252 References 252 16. Brownfields as waste/race governance: U.S. contaminated property redevelopment and racial capitalism 255 Introduction 255 Brownfield redevelopment: frontiers of unproductive land and blight 258 Healthfields: "greenwashing" austerity or community-driven health justice? 262 Conclusion: antiracist soil exegesis 265 Notes 267 References 268 17. Of ships of doom and icebergs: early perspectives on the global hazardous waste trade 271 Introduction 271 Studying the hazardous waste trade in the 1980s and 1990s 272 Illegal waste trading in the 1980s: setting the narrative frame 275 The shaping of global waste trade governance 276 Complicating the narrative 278 Informing later narratives: a changing waste trade world 279 Notes 280 References 281 18. Oil Wasting: The Necroaesthetics of Energy Expenditure 284 Behind the Sun: the burning of the Kuwait oil fields 285 Energy expenditure in the age of oil 286 Necropolitics and the wasting of lives 287 Necroaesthetics and the glorious expenditure of oil waste 288 Notes 290 References 290 19. Wastepicker organizations and urban sustainability 292 Introduction 292 Member-based organizations (MBOs) of waste-pickers 293 Grassroots social innovations in waste management 297 Waste-pickers tackling sustainable development goals 299 Final considerations 302 References 304 20. Waste, labor, and livelihoods in South Africa 308 Introduction 308 Waste flows, actors, and institutions 309 State oversight and finance 310 Regulating waste 310 Funding and financing waste management 312 Changing dynamics of waste work 313 Emerging questions about waste and work in South Africa and beyond 316 Note 317 References 317 21. Prepping for the [insert here] apocalypse and wasting the future 322 Introduction 322 Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war) 323 Properly masked and drenched in Purell 326 I've already been in this movie 328 An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure 333 Notes 335 References 335 Index 339 WASTE,STUDIES;,nuclear,waste;,settler,colonialism;,consumer,behaviours;,waste,management,systems; WASTE STUDIES,nuclear waste,settler colonialism,consumer behaviours,waste management systems "The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies offers a comprehensive survey of the new field of waste studies, critically interrogating the cultural, social, economic and political systems within which waste is created, managed and circulated. While scholars have not settled on a definitive categorization of what waste studies is, more and more researchers claim that there is distinct cluster of inquiries, concepts, theories and key themes that constitute this field. In this handbook the editors and contributors explore the research questions, methods and case studies preoccupying academics working in this field, in an attempt to develop a set of criteria by which to define and understand waste studies as an interdisciplinary field of study. This handbook will be invaluable to those wishing to broaden their understanding of waste studies and to students and practitioners of Geography, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Environment and Sustainability studies"-- Provided by publisher The Routledge Handbook of Waste Studies offers a comprehensive survey of the new field of waste studies, critically interrogating the cultural, social, economic, and political systems within which waste is created, managed, and circulated. While scholars have not settled on a definitive categorization of what waste studies is, more and more researchers claim that there is a distinct cluster of inquiries, concepts, theories and key themes that constitute this field. In this handbook the editors and contributors explore the research questions, methods, and case studies preoccupying academics working in this field, in an attempt to develop a set of criteria by which to define and understand waste studies as an interdisciplinary field of study. This handbook will be invaluable to those wishing to broaden their understanding of waste studies and to students and practitioners of geography, sociology, anthropology, history, environment, and sustainability studies.