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Culture And Waste
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Author : Gay Hawkins
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2003
Culture And Waste written by Gay Hawkins and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
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.'
Garbage In Popular Culture
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Author : Mehita Iqani
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2020-11-01
Garbage In Popular Culture written by Mehita Iqani and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Garbage in Popular Culture is the first book to explicitly link media discourse, consumer culture and the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society. It makes an original contribution to the areas of consumer culture studies, visual culture, media and communications, and cultural theory through a critical analysis of the ways in which waste and garbage are visually communicated in the public realm. Mehita Iqani examines three key themes evident in the global representation of garbage: questions of agency and activism, cultures of hedonism and luxury, and anxieties about devastation and its affect. Each theme is explored through a number of case studies, including zero-waste recycling campaigns communicated on Instagram, to fine art made with waste, popular entertainment festivals, tropical beach tourism, and films about oil spills and plastic waste in oceans. Iqani argues that we need a new vocabulary to think about what it means to be human in this new age of consumption-produced waste, and reflects on what rubbish allows us to learn about our relationship with the natural world.
Trash Culture
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Author : Gillian Pye
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2010
Trash Culture written by Gillian Pye and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Integrated solid waste management categories.
In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. The culture of excess underlying these concerns is particularly evident in the issue of trash, which for environmentalists has been a negative category, heavily implicated in the destruction of the natural world. However, in the context of the arts, trash has long been seen as a rich aesthetic resource and, more recently, particularly under the influence of anthropology and archaeology, it has been explored as a form of material culture that articulates modes of identity construction. In the context of such shifting, often ambiguous attitudes to the obsolete and the discarded, this book offers a timely insight into their significance for representations of social and personal identity. The essays in the book build on scholarship in cultural theory, sociology and anthropology that suggests that social and personal experience is embedded in material culture, but they also focus on the significance of trash as an aesthetic resource. The volume illuminates some of the ways in which our relationship to trash has influenced and is influenced by cultural products including art, architecture, literature, film and museum culture.
Food Waste
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Author : David M. Evans
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-23
Food Waste written by David M. Evans and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-23 with Social Science categories.
In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches. Using ethnographic material to explore global issues, Food Waste unearths the processes that lie behind the volume of food currently wasted by households and consumers. The author demonstrates how waste arises as a consequence of households negotiating the complex and contradictory demands of everyday life, explores the reasons why surplus food ends up in the bin, and considers innovative solutions to the problem. Drawing inspiration from studies of consumption and material culture alongside social science perspectives on everyday life and the home, this lively yet scholarly book is ideal for students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines, along with anyone interested in understanding the food that we waste.
The Ethics Of Waste
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Author : Gay Hawkins
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2006
The Ethics Of Waste written by Gay Hawkins and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Nature categories.
Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life_from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don't? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this 'public conscience' affect policy? Placing these ideas into historical, social, and cultural perspective, this thoughtful book seeks ways to change ecologically destructive practices without recourse to guilt, moralism, or despair.
Rubbish Waste And Litter
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Author : Tadeusz Rachwał
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-01
Rubbish Waste And Litter written by Tadeusz Rachwał and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01 with Ethnology categories.
Basura
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Author : Samuel Amago
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2021-07-13
Basura written by Samuel Amago and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Basura considers the efforts of artists, writers, and designers for whom waste is a means to withstand cultural erasure.
The Culture Of Flushing
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Author : Jamie Benidickson
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
The Culture Of Flushing written by Jamie Benidickson and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The flush of a toilet is routine. It is safe, efficient, necessary, nonpolitical, and utterly unremarkable. Yet Jamie Benidickson's examination of the social and legal history of sewage in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom demonstrates that the uncontroversial reputation of flushing is deceptive. The Culture of Flushing investigates and clarifies the murky evolution of waste treatment. It is particularly relevant in a time when community water quality can no longer be taken for granted.
Greenwashing Culture
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Author : Toby Miller
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-03
Greenwashing Culture written by Toby Miller and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-03 with Social Science categories.
Greenwashing Culture examines the complicity of culture with our environmental crisis. Through its own carbon footprint, the promotion of image-friendly environmental credentials for celebrities, and the mutually beneficial engagement with big industry polluters, Toby Miller argues that culture has become an enabler of environmental criminals to win over local, national, and international communities. Topics include: the environmental liabilities involved in digital and print technologies used by cultural institutions and their consumers; Hollywood's 'green celebrities' and the immense ecological impact of their jet-setting lifestyles and filmmaking itself; high profile sponsorship deals between museums and oil and gas companies, such as BP's sponsorship of Tate Britain; radical environmental reform, via citizenship and public policy, illustrated by the actions of Greenpeace against Shell's sponsorship of Lego. This is a thought-provoking introduction to the harmful impact of greenwashing. It is essential reading for students of cultural studies and environmental studies, and those with an interest in environmental activism.
The Afterlife Of Discarded Objects
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Author : Andrei Guruianu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12-02
The Afterlife Of Discarded Objects written by Andrei Guruianu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-02 with Art categories.
The Afterlife of Discarded Objects: Memory and Forgetting in a Culture of Waste explains and ultimately redeems our culture's fascination with discarded material objects as a means to encapsulate and shape the socio-cultural imagination. Printed in full color and includes references, an index, and over seventy hi-resolution color images.