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Discard studies : wasting, systems, and power /

"First primer in the emerging field of discard studies. It explores the way that social, economic, and political systems maintain themselves by discarding certain people, places, and things"--

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Main Authors: Liboiron, Max, 1980- (Author)
Group Author: Lepawsky, Josh, 1972-
Published: The MIT Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Publication Dates: [2022]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Waste products > Philosophy.
Waste products > Social aspects.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Philosophy.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Social aspects.
Waste (Economics)
Power (Social sciences)
Marginality, Social.
Summary: "First primer in the emerging field of discard studies. It explores the way that social, economic, and political systems maintain themselves by discarding certain people, places, and things"--
Carrier Form: ix, 210 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-193) and index.
ISBN: 9780262543651
0262543656
Index Number: HD9975
CLC: X70
Call Number: X70/L696
Contents: An introduction to discard studies -- The scales of waste (a theory of relationality) -- Insides and outsides (a theory of power) -- There's no such thing as we (a theory of difference) -- Discarding well (a theory of change).

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