Facing Frictions: Waste and Globalised Inequalities ’s Recycling Policies, Development Ethos and Peasants Turned Entrepreneurs

Laser, Stefan; Schlitz, Nicolas

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“…Given the limits of the planet, however, expanding the prevailing current mode of production and consumption in rich countries to the rest of the world would simply not be possible. Today`s highly unequal overuse of natural resources globally, but also within the EU (Ivanova/Wood 2020), and the use of developing countries as a global sink for waste (Laser/Schlitz 2019), are not a coincidence but an outcome of the specific configuration of contemporary asymmetrically structured global capitalism. In addition, the effects of climate change are unequally distributed among various socio-economic groups.…”

Section: The Highly Unequal Overuse Of the Global Environment By The Global Northmentioning

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Global Green Finance and Sustainability: Insights for Progressive Strategies

Jäger¹,

Schmidt²

2020

Journal Für Entwicklungspolitik

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Green finance has been increasingly presented as being an effective solution to global environmental problems and climate change. However, today's global financial structures tend to reproduce global inequalities and contribute to continued, highly unequal over-use and destruction of the environment, as well as a global ecological crisis. This paper introduces the topic with a specific emphasis on green finance, and provides an overview of the contributions to this special issue on Global Finance and Socio-Ecological Transformation. We discuss the implications of global green finance and propose a typology that differentiates between neoliberal, reformist and progressive transformative types of green finance. Based on this, we present insights for progressive strategies and policies for financing a socio-ecological transformation towards global sustainable welfare.

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Section: The Highly Unequal Overuse Of the Global Environment By The Global Northmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Green Finance and Sustainability: Insights for Progressive Strategies

Jäger¹,

Schmidt²

2020

Journal Für Entwicklungspolitik

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Wert mit Abfall befragen. Eine soziomaterielle Perspektive auf die Erzeugung von Wert mit Einsichten aus ethnographischer Forschung zu Elektroschrott

Laser

2022

Zeitschrift Für Soziologie

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Zusammenfassung Bewertungen sind an der Hervorbringung sozialer Ordnungen beteiligt. Wenngleich als Leitunterscheidung benannt, wird im Forschungsfeld der Bewertungssoziologie die Unterscheidung von wertvoll und wertlos jedoch häufig übergangen und die Rolle von destruktiven Praktiken unterbeleuchtet; das Feld kann profitieren von den instruktiven, aber disziplinär fragmentierten Beiträgen der Abfallforschung. Der vorliegende Beitrag entwickelt eine soziologische Perspektive, in der Abfälle als werterzeugende Instanzen im Zentrum stehen. Wie können Abfall und Wert in ihrer Relation und im Sinne einer Überschneidung von Sozialität und Materialität näher bestimmt werden? Inwiefern wirken abfallspezifische Praktiken ordnungsstiftend? Teilnehmende Beobachtungen aus einem Recyclingbetrieb und die Ethnographie einer gescheiterten digitalen Innovation von Google haben die Untersuchung angeregt. Mit den zwei qualitativen Fallstudien wird die Grundunterscheidung von Bewertung und Wertung weiterentwickelt, als fruchtbar erweist sich dabei, eine wirtschaftssoziologisch geläufigen Optik von „Wertschöpfung“ umzustellen auf soziomaterielle Prozesse von „Deformation“ und „Entsorgung“.

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Reshuffling Responsibility: Waste, Environmental Justice and Urban Citizenship in Cambodia

Eitel¹

2022

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‘Responsibility’ is the new buzzword in environmentalism and climate change discourse. Regarding the waste ‘crisis’ in particular, responsibility is understood as pertaining to individual actors, thus undermining the prevailing perception of an interconnected world. This article argues for a processual perspective on responsibility as entangled conditioning of life, which has the potential to embrace more-thanhuman politics of responsibility, that is crucial to facilitate an environmentally just transition ‘from the margins’. Exploring three sites of waste responsibility—in the form of responsibility politics, in the public sphere, and on haphazard city wastelands—the article examines different waste relationships that provoke multiple forms and notions of responsibility that respond to Cambodia’s recalcitrant and seemingly unmanageable waste situation. The revelation of responsibility as a processual and temporally diverse phenomenon permits the emergence of new forms of responsibility that contest the predominant notion of ‘waste responsibility’, which forms the basis of numerous waste reduction models worldwide. The local implementation of such programs universalizes and standardizes waste responsibilities as they are implemented in alignment with long-established ways of doing politics and waste fantasies. However, local waste pickers have already assumed a significant proportion of the responsibility for waste. By collecting and reselling waste on a daily basis, they enable a sovereignty-through-waste, which reclaims urban citizenship and promotes an environmentally just transition that resonates with the relationships waste undergoes in unruly sites, hinting at possible future politics.

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Facing Frictions: Waste and Globalised Inequalities ’s Recycling Policies, Development Ethos and Peasants Turned Entrepreneurs

Cited by 3 publications

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Global Green Finance and Sustainability: Insights for Progressive Strategies

Global Green Finance and Sustainability: Insights for Progressive Strategies

Wert mit Abfall befragen. Eine soziomaterielle Perspektive auf die Erzeugung von Wert mit Einsichten aus ethnographischer Forschung zu Elektroschrott

Reshuffling Responsibility: Waste, Environmental Justice and Urban Citizenship in Cambodia

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