Samwel Moses Ntapanta

Gathering Electronic Waste in Tanzania

Labour, Value, and Toxicity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using Tanzania as a case study, this book traces the lifecycle of electronic goods beyond their discard in the Global South to provide a deeper understanding of the informal sector's vital role in rethinking global discard circulations, labour, value, and toxicity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666956269
• ISBN-10: 1666956260
• Artikelnr.: 71774081

Autorenporträt

Samwel Moses Ntapanta is post-doctorate research fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Workshop at the Downstream of Techno Capitalism
Chapter 1: Electronic Discards: Worlding, Flows and Property Relations
Chapter 2: Informality and its Malcontents in Tanzania: A Brief History
Chapter 3: Repair Allegories: Phenomenology of Electronics Consumption and
Repair
Chapter 4: Gatherings: Coming Together of Discards Labor
Chapter 5: Gathering: Locating and Gathering Discards
Chapter 6: Crafting Discards: Tools, Knowledges, and Imaginaries
Chapter 7: Follow the Problem: From Discards, Charcoal Stoves, to
Deforestation
Chapter 8: Lifescaping Toxicity: Locating and Living with Pollution
Conclusion: Gathering Home, Hopes and Loss
Bibliography
About the Author