Culture and Waste

The Creation and Destruction of Value
Herausgeber: Hawkins, Gay; Muecke, Stephen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The international contributors to this collection ask us to pause and consider the complex ways in which value is created and destroyed. Their diverse approaches of ethics, philosophy, cultural studies, and politics are at the forefront of a new field of 'ecohumanites.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780742519817
• ISBN-10: 0742519813
• Artikelnr.: 21813763

Autorenporträt

Edited by Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke - Contributions by John Frow; David Halperin; Jonathon Gil Harris; Anna Neill; Suzanne Raitt; Deborah Bird Rose; Michael Taussig and Patricia Yaeger

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Cultural Economies of Waste Chapter 2 Out of
Australia Chapter 3 Miasma Chapter 4 Invidious Distinction: Waste
Difference and Classy Stuff Chapter 5 Down the Drain: Shit and the Politics
of Disturbance Chapter 6 Decolonising the Discourse of Environmental
Knowledge in Settler Societies Chapter 7 Psychic Waste: Freud, Fechner and
the Principle of Constancy Chapter 8 Hollywood's Pacific Junk: The Wreckage
of Colonial History in Six Days and Seven Nights and Rapa Nui Chapter 9
Trash as Archive, Trash as Enlightenment Chapter 10 Devastation