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Reclaiming the Discarded : Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump /

In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Millar, Kathleen M., 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Arriving beyond abjection
  • The precarious present
  • Life well spent
  • Plastic economy
  • From refuse to revolution
  • Conclusion: the garbage never ends.