Waste is not the end. For an anthropology of care, maintenance and repair

Martı́nez, Francisco

doi:10.1111/1469-8676.12436

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“…In contrast to the instrumental discourses found in mainstream circular economies literature, sociological research on repair makes visible diverse and contested narratives and framings, in which repair is deeply embedded in relations with material artefacts, and social and political systems [44][45][46]. We have previously explored this theoretical "gap" between how repair is conceptualised in mainstream CE literature and policies on the one hand and how it is understood and presented in the emerging social research on repair on the other [10].…”

Section: Theory: Previous Research On the Political Economy Of Repair And Circular Economiesmentioning

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The Political Economy of Circular Economies: Lessons from Future Repair Scenario Deliberations in Sweden

Niskanen

McLaren

2021

Circ.Econ.Sust.

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The dominant technocratic and neoliberal imaginary of a circular economy dependent on corporate leadership, market mechanisms, and changed consumer behaviour is here explored using the findings of deliberative stakeholder workshops examining diverse scenarios for the promotion of repair as part of a circular economy. Stakeholder responses to four scenarios—digital circularity, planned circularity, circular modernism, and bottom-up sufficiency—are described with reference to the ideologies, interests, and institutions involved. We distinguish two levels of discourse in the stakeholder discussions. The main narrative in which individualist and consumerist ideologies dominate, even within ideals of sustainability, reflects a conjunction of corporate, labour, and public interests in the market liberal social democratic state, with proposed interventions focused on the institutions of markets and education. A subaltern narrative present in the margins of the discussions challenges the consumerist and productivist presumptions of the market liberal political economy and hints at more transformative change. These conflicting responses not only cast light on the ways in which the political economy of contemporary Sweden (within the European Union) constrains and conditions current expectations and imaginaries of circularity, but also suggest ways in which the future political economy of circular economies might be contested and evolve.

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Section: Theory: Previous Research On the Political Economy Of Repair And Circular Economiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Economy of Circular Economies: Lessons from Future Repair Scenario Deliberations in Sweden

Niskanen

McLaren

2021

Circ.Econ.Sust.

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“…A local whom I met in Rybreka village noted, "they [private companies] just take the stone from us, and we are not needed anymore." Abandoned industries, closed plants, or decaying industrial settlements are often seen as a material actualization of the fall of the Soviet Union (Martínez, 2017).…”

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Destructive care

Varfolomeeva

2021

NJSTS

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There is a growing awareness of the essential similarities between care and maintenance notions in more-than-human settings. Whereas the concept of care is increasingly extended towards non-living organisms, research on maintenance and repair still focuses mainly on technologies and infrastructures. This article extends the realm of maintenance theorizing towards humans' caretaking activities and discusses the concepts' parallels. It focuses on the case study of Veps ethnic minority in Karelia, Northwestern Russia. Since the 18th century, Veps have been extracting rare ornamental stones: gabbro-diabase and raspberry quartzite. The article demonstrates that Veps workers engage in close bodily and material interactions with the mining industry. Whereas many of them enter into affective relations with the stone, their attitudes towards their bodies and health become estranged and detached. The article introduces the concept of "destructive care" to analyze the process of the workers' growing alienation from their bodily needs. Through the Veps' example, the article demonstrates that the logics of care and maintenance become entangled in the realm of human – material co-existence.

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“…Réparer contribue à dessiner une nouvelle voie aux objets et ressort d'une écologie du soin (Jackson, 2014). La réparation et la réutilisation peuvent être interprétées comme des alternatives à la rationalité économique actuelle reposant sur des cycles de consommation et mise au rebut accélérés (Martínez, 2017). En cela ces actions participent de la construction d'alternatives politiques (Graziano et Trogal, 2017).…”

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Repair, sew up, restore… Local communities in the process of trial and error

Gobert¹,

Deroubaix²

2021

geocarrefour

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Waste is not the end. For an anthropology of care, maintenance and repair

Cited by 29 publications

References 22 publications

The Political Economy of Circular Economies: Lessons from Future Repair Scenario Deliberations in Sweden

The Political Economy of Circular Economies: Lessons from Future Repair Scenario Deliberations in Sweden

Destructive care

Repair, sew up, restore… Local communities in the process of trial and error

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