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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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Table des matières:
- Arriving beyond abjection
- The precarious present
- Life well spent
- Plastic economy
- From refuse to revolution
- Conclusion: the garbage never ends.