CFP-Crip Technoscience
While not always engaging with the concept of “technoscience,” scholars of critical, feminist, and crip disability studies often build on the foundational claim of disability studies that natural…
Author: Max Liboiron
CFP: Discarded & Queered Life: Exploring Urban Political & Queer Ecologies of Value and Exclusion
We consider how zones of exclusion, zero tolerance zones and other similar geospatial “exclusionary regimes” emphasize “the undeserving and the unreformable nature of deviants” (Becket and Weston 2001…
Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Grounding the Ecocritical: Materializing Wastelands and Living on in the Middle East (3/ 1)
2017-18 Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellowship The Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (JINELC) at Washington University in St. Louis invites application…
Free student membership in Solid Waste Association of North America
SWANA – the Solid Waste Association of North America is now offering FREE membership to full-time college and university students.
Article Alert! New writing in discard studies
New articles in discard studies, from December 2016 to January 2017.
CFP: Theorizing Harm
Whether focused on toxicity, disease, disaster, violence, or malfunction, STS scholars have long studied harm. Given the great diversity of approaches and cases, this panel seeks to take…
Top posts on the Discard Studies Blog in 2016
Thank you to our readers, authors, and supporters for a great 2016! We had over 136, 600 views from nearly 70,000 visitors this year! What were you reading?…
Bibliography for Critical Ecology
Since ecological metaphors, systems, and thinking are implicit to much of discard studies, we’re happy to share this crowdsourced bibliography on critical perspectives of ecology.
CFP: The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic: A nearly carbon-neutral conference
This conference will take place entirely online from 26 June-14 July, 2017. Contributors will not have to travel anywhere and there is no registration fee. Conference presentations will…
CFP: Environmental Justice 2017 – Looking Back, Looking Forward
CFP: Environmental Justice 2017 – Looking Back, Looking Forward Monday 6 – Wednesday 8 November 2017 HOLME BUILDING | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Bureaucrats and techies leading the pollution resistance against Trump
Some of Trumps efforts are literally to support and intensify environmental pollution, and some are efforts to make certain people disposable. But people are fighting back. A lot…
Fracking, mining, murder: the killer agenda driving migration in Mexico and Central America
Why negotiate with poor Indigenous communities sitting atop valuable oil, water, wood and ore if they can be pushed off their land with hidden criminal, political and misogynistic…
CFP: Cities, Public Spaces and Rejects: Encounters and Confrontations between Rurality and Urbanity
7th European conference on African studies 29 June 2017-1st July 2017, University of Basel In African cities, the various uses of public spaces offer the opportunity for an…
More boys are diagnosed with cancer than girls worldwide – why?
The factors that lead to gender differences in cancer rates all affect us later in life, and should not apply to children. Yet the present data shows that…
Article Alert! New articles in discard studies from October
Since discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the…
Paid graduate positions in discard studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland
The following paid graduate positions are available in discard studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland: • Place-based knowledge (natural and/or social sciences) (PhD) • Social Licence and Commu…
CFP: Queer/Crip Contagions
This special issue asks: how are queer/crip contagions – conceived of as unbounded convergences of bodies, minds, and meanings – working to open up new sites of, and…
CFP: Remediation, Restoration and the Environmental Legacies of Extractive Industries in the North
Call for Papers for 2017 ICASS Conference: Umea, Sweden, June 8-12 Session Title: Remediation, Restoration and the Environmental Legacies of Extractive Industries in the North Organizers: Dr. Arn Keel…
In Trump’s America, 72% of the population is disposable
What does that mean? As an affront to order, it means we are pollution. It means we must be aggressively ignored, ordered, or erased. We know this. This…
CFP: Repair Matters
This special issue of ephemera aims to investigate contemporary practices of repair as an emergent focus of recent organizing at the intersection of politics, ecology and economy.
CFP: Indigenous resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice
This volume of Environment and Society aims to set forth a theoretical and discursive interruption of the dominant environmental justice movement by reframing issues of climate change and…
Discard Studies Article Alerts for October!
Since discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.…
How toxic flame retardant chemicals become-and stay-ubiquitous in our homes and bodies
A new report highlights the failure of Canadian federal regulations to keep harmful flame retardant chemicals out of homes and consumer products. In fact, it argues that current…
Dumping Milk from the Treadmill of Production
Over 43 million gallons of milk has been dumped into manure pits and fields the first eight months of 2016. There is too much of it. Yet milk…