Provincialising Waste: The Transformation of Ambulance Car 7/83–2 to Tro-Tro Dr. Jesus

Beisel, Uli; Schneider, Tillmann

doi:10.1068/d9610

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“…Instead they must accord to the tastes, policies, and markets of particular places. Travel that works, when it works, does not proceed through distant networks, but involves interaction that is immediate, and never complete (see also Beisel and Schneider, 2012;Morita, 2013). Even travel is situated.…”

Section: Conclusion: Situated Travelmentioning

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The world in a box? Food security, edible insects, and “One World, One Health” collaboration

Yates‐Doerr

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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Section: Conclusion: Situated Travelmentioning

confidence: 96%

The world in a box? Food security, edible insects, and “One World, One Health” collaboration

Yates‐Doerr

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Edwards's argument can certainly be extended conceptually to grasp other, more nuanced uneven geographies of infrastructure (e.g., Graham & Marvin, ) relating to, for example, intersections of gender, class, race, and location (among other factors). In practice, operability of ICT, as with other technology, can be flickering, stuttering, faltering‐but‐not‐yet‐failed, even if things ever worked smoothly at all (Akrich, ; Beisel & Schneider, ; De Laet & Mol, ; Houston et al, ).…”

Section: Situating Independent and Do‐it‐yourself Ict Mandrmentioning

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Planet of fixers? Mapping the middle grounds of independent and do‐it‐yourself information and communication technology maintenance and repair

Lepawsky

2020

Geography and Environment

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This paper explores the geographical distribution of independent and do‐it‐yourself information and communication technology maintenance and repair (INDIY ICT M&R) activity around the world. It examines a large set of Google Analytics data pertaining to users of free, open‐source online repair manuals provided by iFixit, a US‐based organisation that develops the free manuals, sells tools and components, and also engages in technical education and policy advocacy. The paper draws on three years of available user data (2016–2018). Over this time period the total user base of iFixit's manuals grew from over 1.3 million users to more than 4.1 million users across the planet. However, counter to what might be expected, the global distribution of iFixit users does not systematically co‐vary with internet access rates or with the population size of locations. The results reported here, while partial, are valuable in that they demonstrate both a globally distributed phenomenon and high‐resolution location patterns of INDIY ICT M&R activity. Mapping the extent and spatial patterning of such activity is a jumping off point for the kinds of qualitative analyses needed to elucidate the how's, the why's, and the meanings of the observed uneven distribution patterns. More broadly, the results suggest fruitful directions for deeper analyses and research into both pragmatic questions about ICT maintenance and repair (such as their social, economic, and environmental significance), as well as more speculative questions about how and why the fates of ICT within and between production, use, and discard stand in for dreams of technological futurity and nightmares of social and environmental breakdown.

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“…Object fluidity (Mol and Law, ; De Laet and Mol, ). Dangerous possibility (Beisel and Schneider, ). A site multiple, material and manyfolded.…”

Section: Rekindling Value and Accumulating Poisonmentioning

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Composing Urban Orders from Rubbish Electronics: Cityness and the Site Multiple

Lepawsky

Akese

Billah

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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What do cities look like when rubbish electronics are the vehicle with which they are explored? This article is an experiment designed to offer a response to that question, and in doing so to productively intervene in the conversation about 'cityness ', 'metrocentricity' and 'subaltern urbanism'. We intervene by following flows of rubbish electronics and the action that enacts them as waste and value, drawing on fieldwork in Dhaka, Singapore, Accra and Canada's Greater Golden Horseshoe. Our intervention is an experiment in writ ing an urban geography of rubbish electronics as a site multiple. We show how follow ing the circulation of rubbish electronics offers a manyfolded synopsis of cities: urban enclaves of high finance and the information economy are also industrial waste producers. Peri urban industrial zones are also managers of brands, legal liability and corporate public relations. Cities off the map are also urban innovation systems, while waste is rekindled as value and accumulated as poison. Thereby we suggest how a sensitivity to the site multiple may be a helpful way of grappling with shifting ontology and the performativity of our research practices in urban studies.'to live in one city today means living in many, as any individual city folds in and stretches itself across urban experiences, information, and economies throughout the world. ' AbdouMaliq Simone (2010: xiii)

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Provincialising Waste: The Transformation of Ambulance Car 7/83–2 to Tro-Tro Dr. Jesus

Cited by 22 publications

References 23 publications

The world in a box? Food security, edible insects, and “One World, One Health” collaboration

The world in a box? Food security, edible insects, and “One World, One Health” collaboration

Planet of fixers? Mapping the middle grounds of independent and do‐it‐yourself information and communication technology maintenance and repair

Composing Urban Orders from Rubbish Electronics: Cityness and the Site Multiple

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