Author: Max Liboiron

The moving boundaries of recycling in and beyond China AAS-in-Asia Conference Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries Seoul, 24-27 June 2017 Note: deadline in 10 days Recycling (understood…

Integrating waste systems: interrogating system boundaries and performance possibilities  American Association of Geographers, April 2016 Lily Baum Pollans, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, M…

Dr. Max Liboiron (contributing editor of Discard Studies) invites applications to an open PhD position in place-based knowledge. There is no predetermined project for this position other than…

To build and advance intersectionality and theories of EJ, we propose a Special Issue that examines intersectional approaches to environmental justice —that is, an issue dedicated to developing…

These are the most recent publications in the subfield of discard studies for September 2016.

The aim of this sub-theme is to empirically and conceptually explore the multifaceted politics of valuation, including both the politics in valuation practices as well as the role…

This panel seeks to add to the growing critical scholarship on the green economy and invites researchers studying discards, recycling, repurposing and allied processes from a critical perspective…

The 2017 symposium – which anticipates an international conference to take place in 2018 – seeks to explore the range of themes covered under the heading of ‘trash’…

The Emmy Noether Research Group “Hazardous Travels. Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy” is nviting applications for three funded positions for doctoral candidates. The project “Hazardous Travel…

This session traces the shift from waste-as-externality to waste-as-resource, and focuses on the production of waste-based commodity frontiers.

We welcome papers and performances (including artworks, films and media experiments) that map, trace, and critique ecologies of toxicity.

In this workshop we seek to interrogate the notion of uselessness in culture, politics and aesthetics both empirically and theoretically through four broad interconnected themes; the everyday, space,…

Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.

This AAG session seeks papers that are interested in broadening the concept of environmental justice through an analytical focus on racism, embodiment, and environment or place.

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…

The purpose of this two-day transdisciplinary workshop is to gather scholars from the social sciences and the humanities together with a few practitioners to critically discuss the places,…

Since discard studies doesn’t have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a monthly table of contents alert for articles, reports, and books in the field.…

Learn about water testing, particularly for lead, including what people need to know about testing, what to look for, who should do the testing, and how testing should…