Economies of recycling the global transformation of materials, values and social relations / edited by Catherine Alexander and Joshua Reno.

Other author Alexander, Catherine.
Other author Reno, Joshua.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionviii, 304 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Shoddy rags and relief blankets : perceptions of textile recycling in north India / Lucy Norris -- Death, the phoenix, and Pandora : transforming things and values in Bangladesh / Mike Crang ... (et al.) -- One cycle to bind them all? : geographies of nuclearity in the uranium fuel cycle / Romain Garcier -- The shadow of the global network : e-waste flows to China / Xin Tong and Jici Wang -- Devaluing the dirty work : gendered trash work in participatory Dakar / Rosalind Fredericks -- Stitching curtains, grinding plastic : social and material transformation in Buenos Aires / Karen Ann Faulk -- Trash ties : urban politics, economic crisis and Rio de Janerio's garbage dump / Kathleen M. Millar -- Sympathy and its boundaries : necropolitics, labour and waste on the Hooghly river / Laura Bear -- 'No junk for Jesus' : redemptive economies and value conversions in Lutheran medical aid / Britt Halvorson -- Evident excess : material deposits and narcotics surveillance in the USA / Joshua Reno -- Remont : work in progress / Catherine Alexander.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2012288796
ISBN9781780321950 (hbk.)
ISBN1780321953 (hbk.)
ISBN9781780321943 (pbk.)
ISBN1780321945 (pbk.)

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