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Flowing toxics: E-waste field work in the Palestinian-Israeli space

“…Discard studies (https://discardstudies.com/) provides a perspective on the multiscalar and multitemporal awareness needed to grasp the social worlds of waste and their epistemic communities. Once a subject for historians of technology or urban infrastructures (Tarr, 1996), studies of waste have become an important domain of environmental and social research in its own right, scaled to a claim that anthropogenic waste is ubiquitous, at the core of systems of colonial, racial, or class domination (Liboiron, 2021), to the point of being epoch-defining (Boudia et al, 2018;Crutzen, 2006;Hecht, 2018;Johnson, 2019;Nixon, 2011). Waste is theorized as essential to, rather than a byproduct, of capitalist and technical systems (Gidwani and Reddy, 2011;Moore, 2012).…”

“…The critique of extractive and disempowering epidemiologic and environmental studies (Auyero and Swistun, 2009; Centemeri, 2014; Little, 2019, 2021; Tschakert and Singha, 2007), has paved the way for citizen based/participatory approaches with strategic reflections on which exposures and flows to focus on and which ones to disregard (Gramaglia and Dauphin, 2017; Ottinger, 2010; Wylie et al, 2017). Investigations of communities’ attachements to place (Davies, 2013; Edelstein 2003; Kroll-Smith and Couch, 2009; Tironi, 2018), and on the positional dilemmas of toxic fieldwork, navigating between the sterile remove from lived experience, the lure of a voyeuristic form of intimacy in damaged locations (Davies, 2013; Houdart and Pavy, 2019; Lyons, 2018), and the risk of being so stunned as to lose the ability to offer the benefit of hard-worn analytic tools (Bonneuil and Fressoz, 2016: 88), have also prepared researchers to track the ontological fluidity of this thing called “toxics”.…”