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Economies of recycling : the global transformation of materials, values and social relations /
"In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the largest export from the US to China was scrap. But despite the sheer scale of this global trade in used materials, it has yet to be clearly identified and examined. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with an overview of the interna...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Zed Books,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.