Recycling Economies Alexander Catherine
Recycling Economies Alexander Catherine For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to…
Specifikacia Recycling Economies Alexander Catherine
Recycling Economies Alexander Catherine
For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified or analysed. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living.
With case studies from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, China, the former Soviet Union, North America and Europe, Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with overviews of international material flows, Economies of Recycling radically changes the way we understand global and local economies as well as the new social relations and identities created by recycling processes.Following global material chains, this groundbreaking book reveals astonishing connections between persons, households, cities and global regions as objects are reworked, taken to pieces and traded.