Trash ties: urban politics, economic crisis and Rio de Janeiro’s garbage dump

Millar, Kathleen M.

doi:10.5040/9781350219823.ch-007

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“…In this way, they facilitate the exploration of the political dimension unveiled and disputed through its everyday texture (Venkatesan et al 2018;Larkin 2013;Von Schnitzler 2016;Pilo & Jaffe 2020). Similarly, in the literature on waste, its political dimension is set in relief (Liboiron et al 2018;Cirelli & Maccaglia 2021;Millar 2012;Jeffe 2016;Rial & Colombijn 2016). As political matter, waste is permeated, in its most latent dimension, by asymmetric and very often unjust power struggles, which reproduce racialized structures of inequality embedded in urban geographies.…”

Section: Waste Making the City And Politics: Residual Infrastructures...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropology of waste: a research agenda for the study of cities in the era of climate change

Lima

2023

Vibrant, Virtual Braz. Anthr.

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The article theorizes the anthropology of waste as a field of knowledge appropriate for thinking and acting in the contemporary world marked by climate change. Responding to the Anthropocene and the subversion of ‘modern’ boundaries, waste is taken here as a privileged analytic framework for understanding how cities have become reconfigured as ‘Anthropocenic urban landscapes.’ By defining the anthropology of waste as an ‘epistemology of the Anthropocene,’ the text provides a conceptual panorama of the contemporary debate from which a set of theoretical, methodological and political questions emerges. The concept of ‘residual infrastructures’ is explored through two ethnographic cases based in Rio de Janeiro, demonstrating the potential of waste to renew the anthropology of cities by articulating the growing fields of waste and infrastructure studies. In the article’s conclusion, the politics of waste, which emerges from residual infrastructures, is also conceived as a politics of knowledge, outlining a research agenda for this expanding field of studies and indicating possible ways forward in an uncertain future.

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Section: Waste Making the City And Politics: Residual Infrastructures...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropology of waste: a research agenda for the study of cities in the era of climate change

Lima

2023

Vibrant, Virtual Braz. Anthr.

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“…Landfills and waste in the Global South have become a new commodity frontier and thus a subject of enclosures and dispossession (Fredericks 2021;Hartmann 2012;Millar 2012;Millar 2018;Zapata and Zapata 7. Colombia has a population of 7.3 million internally displaced people, one of the largest in the world (2017, UNHCR).…”

Section: Waste Pickers Labour and Landfill Politics In Cartagenamentioning

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In the shadow of the circular economy

Neville

2024

Circular Economies in an Unequal World

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“…The research of several scholars Eriksen, Schober 2017;Millar 2012;Millar 2018;Reno 2009;Sosna 2016;Sovová, Veen 2020) has shown that places which are considered to be of a non-market character and/or dealing with discards, and therefore 'marginal', are often associated with activities that are usually perceived negatively and promoted as a coping strategy to provide poor individuals or families suffering from scarcity with an opportunity to enhance their livelihood or diet (in the case of food self-provisioning), or as an activist practice. Despite the creative (and sustainable) labour they engage in, people working at such places are often stigmatised rather than celebrated.…”

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Grey greening: quiet sustainability at auto salvage yards

Mašek¹

2022

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Building upon my long-term ethnographic research at an auto salvage yard in Central Bohemia, I attempt to reveal through the lens of the ‘quiet sustainability’ concept that ‘greening’ can also be achieved quietly by the grey economy of breaking cars. The case of auto salvage yards shows that sustainability rises even through the yearning for profit. At auto salvage yards, economic meets eco-logic. Therefore, the unintentional sustainability reached by breakers opens space for debate on sustainability reached through the profit motive. While quiet practices leading towards sustainability might not lead to large-scale environmental or social changes, reaching sustainability through profitable practices seems to be a much more appealing way for many, with considerably larger pro-environmental consequences. Hence, these practices could provide inspiration for strategies towards a more sustainable society.

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Trash ties: urban politics, economic crisis and Rio de Janeiro’s garbage dump

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Anthropology of waste: a research agenda for the study of cities in the era of climate change

Anthropology of waste: a research agenda for the study of cities in the era of climate change

In the shadow of the circular economy

Grey greening: quiet sustainability at auto salvage yards

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