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Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value

By Gay Hawkins (ed.) , Stephen Muecke (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
2002
ISBN
0742519813, 9780742519817
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6789220 bytes)
Pages
144\164
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-05-21 21:51:31
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Waste is a key category for understanding cultural value. It is not just the 'bad stuff' we dispose of; it is material we constantly struggle to redeem. Cultures seem to spend as much energy reclassifying negativity as they do on establishing the negative itself. The huge tertiary sector devoted to waste management converts garbage into money, while ecological movements continue to stress human values and 'the natural.' But the problems waste poses are never simply economic or environmental. The international contributors to this collection ask us to pause and consider the complex ways in which value is created and destroyed. Their diverse approaches of ethics, philosophy, cultural studies, and politics are at the forefront of a new field of 'ecohumanites.'

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