1st Edition
Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region Social and Cultural Perspectives
1. Introduction: Contemporary Cultural Perspectives on Discards in the Asia-Pacific Region
Viktor Pál and Iris Borowy
2. Caste, Hierarchy and Cultural Construction of Food (Waste?)
Madhu
3. Environment by, with, and for the Citizens: Collective Identity Shaping the Community-Driven Solid Waste Management in Kerala, India
Pinar Temocin
4. Polluted Histories, Clean Futures? Differing Scenarios for an Electronic Waste Circular Economy in China
Alicia Ng
5. What Type of Trash are You? Steering "Green" Citizenship and Self-Responsibility in Urban China
Virginie Arantes
6. Becoming Visible: An Examination of Chen Qiulin’s Farewell Poem (2002) and Jia Zhangke’s Still Life (2006)
Rosaline (Yi Yi Mon) Kyo
7. Individually and Collectively Grieving the Fukushima Dead at a Waste-Mountain: A Reading of Post-3/11 Novel ‘Hikari no Yama [Mountain of Light]’ by Japanese Monk-Writer Genyu Sokyu
Keitaro Morita
8. Defining Food (and its Waste)
Betsy Price and Paige Lalonde
9. Waste Through Different Eyes: Multi-Sited Photovoice Explorations
Michael Chew
10. Afterword: Planetary Potlatch: Scrutinizing the Moral Economy of Recycling
Peter Wynn Kirby
Biography
Viktor Pál is a Hungarian environmental historian, an Associate Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland, and the University of Ostrava, Czechia, and a visiting researcher at the University of Helsinki. He is the author of the book Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary: An Economic History (2017), and with Stephen Brain, he has co-edited the collection of essays, Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes. Myth, Propaganda, Reality (2019).
Iris Borowy is a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai University, China. She is also a founding director of the Center for the History of Global Development at that university. Her publications include Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future: A History of the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission), published in 2014.
