| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Arriving beyond abjection -- The precarious present -- Life well spent -- Plastic economy -- From refuse to revolution -- Conclusion: the garbage never ends |
| Summary |
In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadores show how this work is inseparable from conceptions of the good life and from human struggles to realize these visions within precarious conditions of urban poverty. By approaching the work of catadores as highly generative, Millar calls into question the category of informality, common conceptions of garbage, and the continued normativity of wage labor. In so doing, she illuminates how waste lies at the heart of relations of inequality and projects of social transformation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Ragpickers -- Brazil -- Duque de Caxias (Rio de Janeiro)
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Dumpster diving -- Brazil -- Duque de Caxias (Rio de Janeiro)
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Ragpickers -- Brazil -- Duque de Caxias (Rio de Janeiro) -- Social conditions
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Refuse and refuse disposal -- Brazil -- Duque de Caxias (Rio de Janeiro)
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Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Brazil -- Duque de Caxias (Rio de Janeiro)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Dumpster diving
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Ragpickers
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Ragpickers -- Social conditions
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Recycling (Waste, etc.)
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Refuse and refuse disposal
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Brazil -- Duque de Caxias (Rio de Janeiro)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017043888 |
| ISBN |
9780822372073 |
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082237207X |
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