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Author Allon, Fiona

Title The Temporalities of Waste Out of Sight, Out of Time
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (287 p.)
Series Routledge Environmental Humanities Ser
Routledge Environmental Humanities Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Out of joint-the time of waste -- The complex temporalities of waste -- Materiality and ethics -- Outline -- Speed and slowness -- Bureaucratic time -- Disposability and persistence -- Longue durée and intergenerational time -- Collision and multiplicity -- Revivals/return -- References -- Part I: Speed and slowness -- Chapter 1: Open crowd: Just-in-time food rescue -- Introduction
Expiration-matter out of time -- Temporal ontology of food waste -- Food rescue: tackling temporal enclosures -- Breadline -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2: Fridges and food waste: An ethnography of freshness -- Fridges, freshness and food waste -- Doing fridge research with Pacific Islanders -- Rhythms, fridges and shared households in Port Moresby, PNG -- Rhythms, fridges and private households migrating to Australia -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Chip, body, earth: Toxic temporalities of Intel processor production -- I Chip -- II Body -- III Earth
Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Bureaucratic time -- Chapter 4: Biopolitical temporalities of waste and the municipal collection schedule in the United States -- House offal and municipal collection: temporal, technical and human elements -- Enacting the temporal grid of compliance for municipal waste collection -- Producing wasted spaces: areas never visited and areas of disposal -- Conclusion: toward new temporalities of waste -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5: Housing waste in remote Indigenous Australia -- Repair, waste, time -- Legal protections for habitable housing
Policy, classification, waste -- References -- Chapter 6: The imaginaries of Beirut's "invisible" solid waste: Exploring walls as temporal pauses amidst the Beirut garbage crisis -- Introduction -- The background -- Temporary tactics -- The wall as temporal pause -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- Online newspaper articles -- Part III: Disposability and persistence -- Chapter 7: "All of them had been forgotten": Waste as literary symbol in the Arab world -- Exception in the permanently temporary refugee camp -- (Un)grievable lives and stalled journeys
Slow violence and the accumulating waste of war -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Lingering matter: Materialities, temporalities and waste in clothes -- Introduction -- Pulling the thread: tracing outwards from the temporary assemblages of clothing -- Component materials that endure: temporal vignettes of unruly3 clothing assemblages -- Concluding thoughts -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: The landfill paradox: Reflections on the temporalities of waste -- The rhythm of waste: dumping narratives -- Arriving at the landfill: locked up waste -- The structure
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Caring about leaks: landfill futures
Form Electronic book
Author Barcan, Ruth
Eddison-Cogan, Karma
ISBN 9781000209112
1000209113