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…
Waste is a tricky word. In our meditations in Somatosphere, waste hews toward its concrete sense as discard: material byproducts of some transformative process, metabolic or mechanical; things…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
Are you an artist, musician, hacker, tinkerer, or generally a curious person, between 18 and 24 years?
This conference explores the socio-material interfaces where waste meets politics in the present. 2 June 2017 – 3 June 2017, Cambridge, UK.
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…
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.
(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…
Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field.
This panel seeks to both critically and productively engage with long-standing and emergent efforts to prevent waste through repair, care and reuse.
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…
There are two new open-access journals on waste: Worldwide Waste Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Journal of Waste Management and Environmental Issues
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…
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…
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…
“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…