ISBN:
9781283549080
,
9781780321950
,
1283549085
,
9781780321967
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (viii, 304 p.))
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Economies of Recycling : The global transformation of materials, values and social relations
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Economies of recycling
DDC:
363.7282
Keywords:
Kreislaufwirtschaft
;
Welt
;
International economic relations Electronic books
;
Recycling (Waste, etc.) Economic aspects
;
Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Economic aspects
;
International economic relations
;
Global Recycling (Rohstoffe)
;
Weltwirtschaft
;
Umweltschutz
;
Rohstoffe
;
Natürliche Ressourcen
;
Abfallbeseitigung
;
Entsorgungsindustrie
;
Abfälle
;
Länderbezogene Beiträge
;
Recycling (raw materials) World economy
;
Environmental protection
;
Raw materials
;
Natural resources
;
Waste disposal
;
Waste disposal industry
;
Waste
;
Country related contents
;
Indien Bangladesch
;
Volksrepublik China
;
Dakar
;
Buenos Aires
;
Rio de Janeiro
;
Vereinigte Staaten
;
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
;
India Bangladesh
;
People's Republic of China
;
United States
;
United States of America
;
Electronic books
;
Recycling (Waste, etc.) ; Economic aspects
;
International economic relations
;
Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Economic aspects
;
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
;
Economic aspects
;
International economic relations
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Recycling
;
Recycling
Abstract:
Following global material chains, this groundbreaking book reveals astonishing connections between persons, households, cities and global regions as objects are reworked, taken to pieces and traded.
Abstract:
Intro -- About the editors -- Figures -- 1.1 Opening the bales of clothing -- 1.2 Mountains of clothing are sorted into 'colour families' -- 1.3 A woman cuts up a tailored coat -- 2.1 Ship becoming steel -- 2.2 Chock-chocky furnishings -- 3.1 Flows of uranium to conversion facilities needed for nuclear electricity production in France, 2008 -- 3.2 The 'closed nuclear cycle' -- 3.3 Waste and materials generated in the material fuel chain -- 4.1 Industrial clusters related to recycling e-waste in the Yangtze river delta -- 4.2 The changing mode of competition in the global electronics industry -- 4.3 The role of different players in WEEE recycling flows -- 4.4 Different approaches in the EPR system -- 5.1 An educational mural -- 6.1 Negative equivalences of linguistic value -- 7.1 Catadores scramble to collect plastics -- 7.2 Bales of plastic bottles -- 9.1 A process of reinstitutionalizing the biomedical discard -- 9.2 An advisory medical professional in IHM's 'sorting room' -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Histories and representations of recycling -- Economies of recycling -- Notes -- References -- Section One: Global waste flows -- 1 | Shoddy rags and relief blankets: perceptions of textile recycling in north India -- Introduction -- The political economy of second-hand clothing -- Panipat industry -- 1.1 Opening the bales of clothing -- 1.2 Mountains of clothing are sorted into 'colour families' prior to being cut up -- 1.3 A woman cuts up a tailored coat -- Moral frameworks -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 2 | Death, the Phoenix and Pandora: transforming things and values in Bangladesh -- The ship as Pandora's box: death and destruction on the beach -- 2.1 Ship becoming steel -- Phoenix from the cutting torch flames: sites of transformation and revalorization -- 2.2 Chock-chocky furnishings.
Description / Table of Contents:
About the editors; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Histories and representations of recycling; Economies of recycling; Notes; References; Section One: Global waste flows; 1 | Shoddy rags and relief blankets: perceptions of textile recycling in north India; Introduction; The political economy of second-hand clothing; Panipat industry; 1.1 Opening the bales of clothing; 1.1 Opening the bales of clothing; 1.2 Mountains of clothing are sorted into 'colour families'; 1.2 Mountains of clothing are sorted into 'colour families' prior to being cut up; 1.3 A woman cuts up a tailored coat
Description / Table of Contents:
1.3 A woman cuts up a tailored coatMoral frameworks; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 2 | Death, the Phoenix and Pandora: transforming things and values in Bangladesh; The ship as Pandora's box: death and destruction on the beach; 2.1 Ship becoming steel; 2.1 Ship becoming steel; Phoenix from the cutting torch flames: sites of transformation and revalorization; 2.2 Chock-chocky furnishings; 2.2 Chock-chocky furnishings; Domestic reincorporation and appropriation: shipshape and Bengali fashion; Conclusions - the dangers of revalorization; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
3 | One cycle to bind them all? Geographies of nuclearity in the uranium fuel cycleDefining the contours of the cycle, negotiating nuclearity; 3.1 Flows of uranium to conversion facilities needed for nuclear electricity production in France, 2008; 3.1 Flows of uranium to conversion facilities needed for nuclear electricity production in France, 2008; 3.2 The 'closed nuclear cycle'; 3.2 The 'closed nuclear cycle'; 3.3 Waste and materials generated in the material fuel chain; 3.3 Waste and materialsgenerated in the materialfuel chain; When spatial strategies fail (1): interrupted flows
Description / Table of Contents:
When spatial strategies fail (2): requalified materialsConclusion; Notes; References; 4 | The shadow of the global network: e-waste flows to China; Introduction; Transnational flows of e-waste; Outline of the investigation; Localization of imported e-waste recycling in coastal China; 4.1 Industrial clusters related to recycling e-waste in the Yangtze river delta; 4.1 Industrial clusters related to recycling e-waste in the Yangtze river delta; 4.2 The changing mode of competition in the global electronics industry; 4.2 The changing mode of competition in the global electronics industry
Description / Table of Contents:
Changing patterns of competition and innovation in the electronics industry4.3 The role of different players in WEEE recycling flows; 4.3 The role of different players in WEEE recycling flows; 4.4 Different approaches in the EPR system; 4.4 Different approaches in the EPR system; Concluding observations; Notes; References; Section Two: The ethics of waste labour; 5 | Devaluing the dirty work: gendered trash work in participatory Dakar; Introduction; Description of the ENDA community-based trash project in Tonghor, Yoff; 5.1 An educational mural
Description / Table of Contents:
5.1 An educational mural aimed at neighbourhood women on the wall of the eco-sanitation station in Tonghor, Yoff
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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