ISSN:
1469-8676
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Social anthropology
Publ. der Quelle:
New York, NY ; Oxford : Berghahn, 1992-
Angaben zur Quelle:
Band 28, Heft 2 (2020), Seite 261-262
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volume:28
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year:2020
Angaben zur Quelle:
number:2
Angaben zur Quelle:
pages:261-262
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extent:2
Abstract:
Garbage piles up in the capital of Cambodia; it lies around in corners, on streets, in fields. COVID-19, which has led to a global reduction in the production of greenhouse gases considered utopian, has had little if any significant impact within this country, where garbage is produced in the same amounts, likewise burned and buried, or dumped into the rivers. The smelly sewage channels of Phnom Penh run as brown as usual, patterned with flip-flops, shampoo packaging, diverse plastic particles, and undefinable fragments of rubbish, travelling south-eastwards into the morning glory fields; passing by buzzing, still active markets, passing urban poor areas, where children play in the thick mud, passing citizens in facemasks. On 10 April, the Cambodian government counted some 120 official cases of COVID-19 infection among its populace...
DOI:
10.1111/1469-8676.12894
URN:
urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-621041
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