Article Alert! Elevent recent publications in discard studies
The following ten articles and one book are recent publications from diverse disciplines, but they all relate to the study of waste, pollution, and externalities. Cooper, D. R.,…
Tag: Waste
Interactive online seminar on “Landfills: Mapping and Monitoring”
OpenHour, an online monthly seminar about DIY monitoring tools, will be hosting “Landfills: Mapping and Monitoring.” Monday 2/1 1pm EST.
Uneven Earth Writing Grants
Uneven Earth, a website that hosts articles, interviews, and other information about environmental and social justice conflicts around the world, is offering a writing grant “to fund two…
Article Alert! Redefining pollution and action: The matter of plastics
From the specific case of marine plastics, Liboiron’s paper offers a more general point that those of us who study discards need to remember to take seriously: How…
CFP for “Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment”
This volume seeks to provide novel insights into ecological and environmental issues by drawing on specifically transgender perspectives. Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2016.
New Book Coming Soon: Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill
In Waste Away, Joshua O. Reno reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill.
An Indigenous Feminist’s take on the Ontological Turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism
Originally posted on Urbane Adventurer: Amiskwacî:by Zoe Todd, PhD Candidate, Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen Personal paradigm shifts have a way of sneaking up on you. It started,…
And Still the World Pursued–The Management of Waste in Max Mad: Fury Road
By Emma Louise Backe Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.” -The First History Man What are the roots that…
PLAN’s Plastic-Free Campus Manual
The Plastic Free Campus Manual includes not only consumer alternatives to disposable plastics, but more importantly, organizing advice on running campaigns, working with administration, facilitating c…
Criminal Negligence? (Part 2)
There is little evidence that transnational shipments of “e-waste” derive from attempts by exporters to elude strict environmental regulations and indicate rather that global flows are mainly driven…
Article Alert! 11 recent articles in discard studies
A table of contents for recent publications in the field of discard studies
CFP: Who will queer political ecology? or Cute goners, (in)human thinkers, and queer wastoids. Oct 2 deadline
Ecological science, invited as queer tactic, can transfigure political ecology’s relations to and interchanges within the Anthropocene. Political ecology shares with queer theory an interest in the bo…
Bigger, Better, Faster, More? Breaking the taboo of production.
The Taboo of Production The conversation of about electronic waste (e-waste) almost without exception, focuses exclusively on what happens after consumers discard their electronics. Framing the conver…
Special Issue on Discards, Diverse Economies, and Degrowth
Why do new economic imaginaries need to take up waste as a central issue? What do novel, non-capitalist economies mean for concepts and materialities of waste?
Funded MA & PhD positions in Participatory Citizen Science, Marine Plastics, and Action-based Research
We are spearheading an interdisciplinary project that looks at research methodologies and ethics in a permanently polluted world. We will be focusing on developing methodologies for participatory cit…
Criminal Negligence?
By Josh Lepawsky, Joshua Goldstein, and Yvan Schulz On 12 May 2015 the United Nations Environmental Program announced the release of a new report called Waste Crime –…
Sweeping Away Agbogbloshie. Again.
By Josh Lepawsky & Grace Akese On 20 June 2015 Ghanaian authorities, including military personnel, entered the infamous Old Fadama/Agbogbloshie site in Accra and began violently dispersing the…