CFP: Food Packaging: Uncovering the History (December, Tokyo)
We invite proposals for papers examining material culture, technology, the business of food packaging and so on, both in the past and in the present.
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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…
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…
On Not Being Seen
Visibility in the field can be fraught with methodological and ethical dilemmas. “Go ahead inside. I need to get a few things from the trunk,” I told Destiny…
Research challenges the view that environmental regulators are anti-business
Interactions between regulators and the private sector at the federal and state levels typically are collegial, and that both sides work to build and maintain cooperative partnerships.
CFP: Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies
We invite academics, practitioners and activists from a range of backgrounds and knowledge institutions to debate the shifting roles of knowledge, culture and ecologies in historical, contemporary and…
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.
CFP: Workshop on “Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science”
Call for Papers: Workshop on “Pollution, Environmental Justice, and Citizen Science” 3-4 May 2017, University of Warwick Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK. Citizen science has…
Graduate Scholarships in Solid Waste Research (USA)
The Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) is one of the largest sources of solid waste research funding in the U.S., allocating approximately $1 million annually in research…
CFP: Treating Waste as a Resource
CFP: ‘Treating Waste as a Resource’ RGS-IBG conference 29 Aug – 1 Sept, 2017 London, UK
Special Issue of Techniques & Culture on Réparer le monde/Fixing the world: Excess, Leftover and Innovation
What should we make of the ever more excessive production of remainders? What spaces of creativity and innovation struggle against, emerge from, or make visible this seemingly hidden…
Article Alert! New writing in discard studies
New articles in discard studies, from December 2016 to January 2017.
Precision is not accuracy.
We often use the words precision and accuracy interchangeably in everyday conversation, but in statistics they mean different things.
Spotlight on Scholars: Rachele Dini and why the literature of waste matters
Between the age of seven and ten, I was obsessed with Barbie, and this playing spilled out far beyond my bedroom: it involved looking around the house, in…
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?…
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…
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…
CFP: Technical Landscapes: Aesthetics and the Environment in the History of Science and Art
The conference will address ‘technical lands’, sites where global knowledge practices and aesthetic categories have converged to literally transform the physical geography of the land. Harvard, April…
CFP: Living in a Toxic World (1800-2000)
The purpose of this session is to provide a multidisciplinary forum for current historical research on toxic products during the two last centuries (1800-2000). 11th International Conference on…
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…