Sayan Dey

Garbocracy (eBook, PDF)

Towards a Great Human Collapse

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Produktbeschreibung

The book reflects on how the accumulation and disposal of public wastes in India, through institutional, intellectual, political, and structural ways are gradually leading to the evolution of a garbocratic governing system across India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781803747279
• Artikelnr.: 72712015

Autorenporträt

Sayan Dey is a Bengali. He was born and brought up in Kolkata, and he traces his ancestry to different parts of Bangladesh. Currently, he works as an Assistant Professor (Department of English Studies) and Vice-chair (The Committee for Research, Innovations, Consultations, and Training), at Bayan College (affiliated with Purdue University Northwest), Oman. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship with Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2021-2023). He is also an Associate Fellow at the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada, a Critical Research Studies Faculty at The NYI Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Studies, New York, and an Affiliated Member of the Global Posthuman Network. His latest monographs are Green Academia: Towards Eco-friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022) and Performing Memories, Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean (Anthem Press, 2023). His research interests are posthumanism, decolonial studies, environmental studies, critical race studies, culinary epistemologies, and critical diversity literacy. He can be reached at www.sayandey.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: (Un)Acknowledgment - Foreword by Christine Daigle - Why Garbocracy? Investigating Garbageous Entanglements - Accumulating - Introduction: The Politics and Optics of Garbaging - Garbo-Imperialism: The Empire of Wastes - Disposing - Garbo-knowledge: Towards Garbo-intellectualism - Garbo-power and Garbo-being: The Onset of Garbo-ideologies - Distributing - Garbo-pedagogies and Garbo-curricula: Schools as Knowledge-garbage Laboratories - Regulating - Garbo-Citizenship: The Great Human Collapse - Digital Discardscapes, Digital Infrastructures, and Garbocratic Futures - Conclusion: Towards Counter-Garbocratic Futures.