Doctoral researcher in “Plastics – Publics – Politics” (Munich)
The Professorship of Science & Technology Policy (Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller), based at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) and affiliated with the School of Life…
Tag: Waste
New Texts in Discard Studies (September 2017)
Since critical 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…
For a true war on waste, the fashion industry must spend more on research
These are admirable initiatives, but they only reduce wastage or delay garments from ending up in landfill. They do not address the fact that the scale of fast…
CFP: Organizing and Managing Waste (Dec 1)
Special issue call for papers from Society and Business Review Organizing and Managing Waste Deadline December 1st, 2017 Waste is not only a global environmental issue. It is also…
New articles in Discard Studies (July/August)
Since critical 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…
CFP: Ethnographic Practices and the Temporality of Evidence (CAS 2018, Cuba)
Call for Papers Ethnographic Practices and the Temporality of Evidence CASCA-CUBA: Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Meeting 16-20 May, 2018 Universidad de Oriente – Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Panel Or…
Article Alert! New texts in discard studies (May & June 2017)
Since critical 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…
Not afraid of the ruins: Call for submissions for science fiction and utopian imaginaries
The goal of this new section will be to regularly showcase new, original, creative and critical reflections to foster intimate and productive conversations across the intellectual and creative…
Four salaried PhD positions in Oslo on toxicology and global waste
AnthroTox focuses initially on electronic waste and associated persistent organic pollutants in Tanzania, East Africa. Applications are invited for four Research Fellowship as PhD Candidate in Social …
Reorganized Organ: youth mentorship project
Are you an artist, musician, hacker, tinkerer, or generally a curious person, between 18 and 24 years?
Putting Dirt in its Place: The Contemporary Politics of Waste (Conference in Cambridge, UK. June 2017)
This conference explores the socio-material interfaces where waste meets politics in the present. 2 June 2017 – 3 June 2017, Cambridge, UK.
Review of ‘Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present’
Richard S. Newman’s recent book offers a new history of Love Canal, the neighborhood near Niagara Falls that became notoriously contaminated by buried chemical waste. As residents became…
CFP: Waste, Space, and Place
We invite papers from multiple disciplines to engage with the topics of waste, wastage, wasting, waste-ability, rescue and salvage in relation to space and place.
CFP: Sciences, savoirs et pratiques des déchets: Dialogues entre mondes européens et américains
(English below, Spanish here, Portuguese here) Colloque international Sciences, savoirs et pratiques des déchets. Dialogues entre mondes européens et américains 23 et 24 Novembre 2017 A l’Institut des…
Article Alert! New texts in discard studies!
Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.
CFP: Waste, Materialities & Meaning: Anthropological Engagements with Reuse, Repair and Care (4/7 deadline)
This panel seeks to both critically and productively engage with long-standing and emergent efforts to prevent waste through repair, care and reuse.
Maintainers II, April 6-9, 2017: Program & Registration
The program is up and registration is open for Maintainers II: Labor, Technology, and Social Orders, which will be held at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ…
Two newly launched open-access waste journals
There are two new open-access journals on waste: Worldwide Waste Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Journal of Waste Management and Environmental Issues
Electronics Reuse and Recycling in Peru: A Photographic exploration
A walk down this little street in Peru’s capital provides a glimpse into an understated network that quietly plays a critical role in reducing the environmental impacts of…
CFP: special issue on Organizing and Managing Waste
This special issue aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview of business in society research on waste, from the micro-practices of individual waste producers or waste managers to the…
CFP: Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology & Science
The Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science (WHEATS) brings together graduate students studying the history of the environment, agriculture, science, or technolog…
How the ‘guerrilla archivists’ saved history – and are doing it again under Trump
“Guerrilla archiving” is a new term, one that can’t be found in scholarly archival literature. But examples of this behavior have cropped up in hostile political climates throughout…
CFP: Toxic legacies, global pollutants (June 2017, Durham University)
Contributions are invited from anthropology, history, and the critical humanities that engage with the legacy of Eurasian and other toxicologies to reflect on the continuing polyvalence of poison…
Pre-doctoral Fellowship in nuclear waste in Japan (US citizens only)
The project would be to assist in research on solutions to the problem of nuclear waste disposal in Japan, and the associated proliferation risks posed by Japan’s reprocessing-only…