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The Temporalities of Waste: Out of Sight, Out of Time book cover

1st Edition

The Temporalities of Waste Out of Sight, Out of Time

Edited By Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan, Karma Eddison-Cogan Copyright 2021
286 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book investigates the complex and unpredictable temporalities of waste. Reflecting on waste in the context of sustainability, materiality, social practices, subjectivity and environmental challenges, the book covers a wide range of settings, from the municipal garbage crisis in Beirut, to food rescue campaigns in Hong Kong and the toxic by-products of computer chip production in Silicon... Read more

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Myra J. Hird

Introduction

Out of joint: the time of waste

Fiona Allon, Ruth Barcan and Karma Eddison-Cogan

Part 1: Speed and Slowness

  1. Open Crowd: just-in-time food rescue

    2. Daisy Tam

  2. Fridges and food waste: an ethnography of freshness

    3. Rebecca Campbell and Gordon Waitt

  3. Chip, body, earth: toxic temporalities of Intel Processor production

    4. Luke Munn

    Part 2: Bureaucratic time

  4. Bio-political temporalities of waste and the municipal collection schedule in the United States

    5. Raysa Martinez Kruger

  5. Housing waste in remote Indigenous Australia

    6. Liam Grealy and Tess Lea

  6. The imaginaries of Beirut’s ‘invisible’ solid waste: exploring walls as temporal pauses amidst the Beirut garbage crisis

    7. Christine Mady

    Part 3: Disposability and persistence

  7. "All of them had been forgotten": the temporality of wasted life in contemporary Arab fiction

    8. Tasnim Qutait

  8. Lingering matter: materialities, temporalities and everyday forms of waste

    9. Elyse Stanes

  9. The landfill paradox: reflections on the temporalities of waste

    10. Yusif Idies

    Part 4: Long durée and intergenerational time

  10. The waste of time

    11. Elizabeth Graham, Dan Evans and Lindsay Duncan

  11. Crip Time and the toxic body: water, waste and the autobiographical self

    12. Ally Day

  12. Wasting seas: oceanic time and temporalities

    13. Elspeth Probyn

    Part 5: Collisions and multiplicity

  13. Today’s waste is tomorrow’s future: on the temporalities of two post-nuclear sites

    14. Aleksandra Brylska

  14. Toxic transmogrification: Rare Earthenware as junk art

    15. Sabine LeBel

  15. Crunch time: temporalities of scrap metal collection

    16. Steven Kohm and Kevin Walby

    Part 6: Revivals and returns

  16. New temporalities of everyday life in Australian suburbia: cultural and material economies of hard rubbish reuse

    17. Tania Lewis, Rowan Wilken and Frédéric Rauturier

  17. Temporal cycles of waste management in Southern African Indigenous societies

          Soul Shava and Rob O’Donoghue

　

Biography

Fiona Allon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and an affiliate of the Sydney Environment Institute. Ruth Barcan is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and a Sydney Environment Institute Key Researcher. Karma Eddison-Cogan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney.

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