Resisting the Wasteocene
Fighting the Global Dump
Resisting the Wasteocene
Fighting the Global Dump
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Description
Challenging the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene, Resisting the Wasteocene highlights wasting relationships that produce both wasted people and ecosystems. This book exposes how such relationships seek to turn communities into socioecological dumps, while also tracing their forms of resistance.
Across case studies from Eastern Europe, Bangladesh, China, Senegal, Cuba, Italy, and more-and drawing on history, anthropology, cultural studies, and geography-it maps the toxic infrastructures that silence and normalize injustice. With its global, interdisciplinary scope and provocative critique of Anthropocene discourse, this volume makes the Wasteocene visible while opening possible pathways for resisting and escaping it.
Table of Contents
2. Organizing the Human: Subverting the Wasteocene, Melanie Samson (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
3. Commoning, Consumption, and the Body on Montevideo's Waste-scape, Patrick O'Hare (University of St Andrews, UK)
4. Circular Logics: Proposals and Counter-Proposals for Extended Producer Responsibility, Christine Hegel (Western Connecticut State University, USA) and Taylor Cass Talbott (International Alliance of Waste Pickers, North America)
5. Decolonizing the Wasteocene: the Black female collectivity of Brazilian waste pickers, Dieric Guimarães (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) and Flavia Maximo
6. The Dump in Cuba, Claudia Lanzidei (Independent Researcher, Italy)
7. Waste as a lens: Unpicking toxic narratives of climate migrants in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal, Sarah Walker (University of Bologna, Italy)
8. Green Ship Recycling: A Toxic Narrative of the Wasteocene? Camelia Dewan (Uppsala University, Sweden)
9. Wasting Peace: Environmental Violence and its Vicissitudes in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, Damir Arsenijevic (University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
10. Culinary Garbo-politics: Marginalized communities, discarded foods, and repressive governmentalities in India, Sayan Dey (Bayan College, Oman) & Tias Maity (Alliance University, Bangalore)
11. The Socialist Experience of Waste and Recycling from Soviet Ukraine to State-Socialist Hungary, Viktor Pál (University of Ostrava, Czechia) and Tetiana Perga (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
12. In the cracks of the Wasteocene. Building circular communities through solidarity networks in central Italy, Francesco Vettori (University of Bologna, Italy)
13. Wasteocene as Method: Reimagining Narratives, Value(s) and Commons, Julie Sze (University of California, Davis, USA)
14. The Waste of the West? Sandra Swart (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
15. What Would a Multispecies Wasteocene Look Like? Lingjing Wu (Renmin University of China)
16. Wasting the World. Class, Capital & Cheap Toxification in the Capitalist World-Ecology, Jason Moore (Binghamton University, USA)
17. Conclusion, Claudia Marina Lanzidei (Independent Researcher, Italy) and Francesco Vettori (University of Bologna, Italy)
Product details
| Published | Feb 18 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350546431 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 8 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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