Josh Lepawsky: Discard Studies | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780262543651 | Discard Studies | Wasting, Systems, and Power | Josh Lepawsky (u. a.)

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An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies looks at wider systems of waste and wasting to explore how some materials, practices, regions, and people are valued or devalued, becoming dominant or disposable. In this book, Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky argue that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. They show how the theories and methods of discard studies can be applied in a variety of cases, many of which do not involve waste, trash, or pollution. Liboiron and Lepawsky consider the partiality of knowledge and offer a theory of scale, exploring the myth that most waste is municipal solid waste produced by consumers; discuss peripheries, centers, and power, using content moderation as an example of how dominant systems find ways to discard; and use theories of difference to show that universalism, stereotypes, and inclusion all have politics of discard and even purification--as exemplified in "inclusive" efforts to broaden the Black Lives Matter movement. Finally, they develop a theory of change by considering "wasting well," outlining techniques, methods, and propositions for a justice-oriented discard studies that keeps power in view.

Über den Autor

Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
1 An Introduction to Discard Studies 1
2 The Scales of Waste: A Theory of Relationality 35
3 Insides and Outsides: A Theory of Power 61
4 There's No Such Thing as We: A Theory of Difference 97
5 Discarding Well: A Theory of Change 125
References 153
Index 195

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780262543651
ISBN-10:	0262543656
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lepawsky, Josh Liboiron, Max
Hersteller:	MIT Press Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 137 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Josh Lepawsky (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.05.2022
Gewicht:	0,247 kg