1st Edition
Waste and Consumption Capitalism, the Environment, and the Life of Things
By Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
Copyright 2011
76 Pages
by
Routledge
76 Pages
by
Routledge
76 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the link between waste and consumption through a cultural approach that integrates environmental concerns with reflections on the role that consumption has come to occupy in our contemporary capitalist societies. The mutual relationship between capitalism and consumption is addressed along with early critiques of industrialization that exposed environmental problems. Toxic... Read more
1. Global Warming, Consumption, and Our Way of Life 2. Capitalism and Consumption 3. The Production of Waste 4. Abused Waste 5. Another Look at Consumption 6. Excess and Waste Revisited
Biography
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches course in social theory and cultural analysis. She is the author of Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini’s Italy and of numerous other works on the relationship between politics and culture.
