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Thill, Brian

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“…Waste takes on different meanings as it flows through the circular economy. Thill (2015: 29, as cited in Bhattacharya 2018) describes waste as leftovers after "desire has been squeezed out of it", implying that what is waste is often socially determined and what is waste for one may not be so for another. An individual who views a product as "waste" will attach negative value to it because of the costs of disposal and pollution and its costs to public health (Harriss-White 2020).…”

Section: The Circular Economymentioning

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Unpacking the Circular Economy: Foregrounding the Contributions of Workers in the Informal Economy in Delhi

sreerupa,

Goel,

Andharia

2023

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The circular economy has emerged as a viable alternative to the “take–make–use–dispose” linear economy by encouraging reuse, repair and recycling whenever possible, thereby reducing waste generation and encouraging more conscientious use of natural resources. Although the Global South has a long history of traditional informal livelihoods that are inherently circular and attempt to generate value out of waste to the farthest extent possible, these informal livelihoods remain neglected in research and discourse on the circular economy. This report presents six case studies of informal livelihoods in the city of Delhi. The case studies found that workers in the informal economy are vital to circular production, contributing significantly to managing waste and closing material cycles through promoting repair, reuse, and upcycling of waste. Moreover, the workers in the informal economy help subsidize the cost of living for them in the city by providing affordable goods and services. Despite their positive contributions to the economy and the environment, these informal circular livelihoods are “invisibilized”, “stigmatized” and under constant threat because of unfavourable legislation. Such work is predominantly performed by socially “othered” people, particularly members of lower castes and tribes and religious minorities, due to the social stigma associated with the impurity of waste. Poor widowed/separated and old migrant women from marginalized communities were found to be most vulnerable and concentrated in the lowest-paid and precarious work of waste collection, street vending, and home-based work. The study found that workers in the informal economy are at the core of the circular economy, devising innovative ways to tackle the “throwaway culture” (or rapid waste generation) within their limited means despite the lack of state support and social protection while facing socio-economic marginalization and stigmatization.

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Section: The Circular Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Unpacking the Circular Economy: Foregrounding the Contributions of Workers in the Informal Economy in Delhi

sreerupa,

Goel,

Andharia

2023

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“…When we look at waste, they are more than litter. These ownerless wastes have made our landscape a ‘trashscape’ (Thill, 2015). This refers to the current state of the world, where waste is present everywhere.…”

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The Interface between Political Ecology and Actor–Network Theory: Exploring the Reality of Waste

Rath

swain

2022

Review of Development and Change

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The human–environment relationship and its association is a prominent discourse in many academic disciplines. Environmental pollution, climate change and vulnerabilities associated with waste have been major concerns for policymakers, activists and academicians across the globe over the past two decades. However, it remains under-theorised despite its significance in the academic world. Waste being a physical and external phenomenon makes it difficult for social science researchers to understand all of its sociocultural aspects with the help of any existing theoretical paradigm. This article addresses the urgent need to understand the multidimensional nature of waste and waste management with the help of political ecology and actor–network theory (ANT). The article provides the areas of possible linkages between both theories to study waste with the help of secondary research tools like the literature review. By adopting theoretical pluralism and a pragmatic approach, this article aims at explaining waste-related issues through the theoretical lens of political ecology and ANT, which corroborate and extend each other on the aspects of analysing the power structure in waste issues, in exploring the changing relationship between waste and people in the globalised world.

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“…Per converso, il giovane Socrate di Platone, impegnato in un dialogo con Parmenide a proposito della dottrina delle idee, non sembra mostrare la stessa attenzione agli scarti. Se nell'Ade, il problema di Socrate sembra essere paragonabile al problema dei rifiuti (Thill 2015), nel Parmenide questi appaiono «fuori posto» anche nell'iperuranio. Come è noto, secondo la dottrina delle idee, la conoscenza di qualcosa è possibile solamente a condizione di conoscere il modello, l'idea di questo qualcosa; le idee, dal canto loro, possiedono uno statuto di esistenza indipendente da ciò di cui rappresentano il modello e, nella riflessione platonica, sono collocate in ciò che Socrate chiama iperuranio.…”

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Unpacking the Circular Economy: Foregrounding the Contributions of Workers in the Informal Economy in Delhi

Unpacking the Circular Economy: Foregrounding the Contributions of Workers in the Informal Economy in Delhi

The Interface between Political Ecology and Actor–Network Theory: Exploring the Reality of Waste

I posti dei rifiuti. Badara Ngom e la discarica di Mbeubeuss

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