Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region (eBook, PDF)

Social and Cultural Perspectives
Redaktion: Pál, Viktor; Borowy, Iris

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the Asia Pacific region. It will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students in sustainability, development studies, discard studies, and social and cultural history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000898354
• Artikelnr.: 68149950

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Contemporary Cultural Perspectives on Discards in the
Asia-Pacific Region 2. Caste, Hierarchy and Cultural Construction of Food
(Waste?) 3. Environment by, with, and for the Citizens: Collective Identity
Shaping the Community-Driven Solid Waste Management in Kerala, India 4.
Polluted Histories, Clean Futures? Differing Scenarios for an Electronic
Waste Circular Economy in China 5. What Type of Trash are You? Steering
"Green" Citizenship and Self-Responsibility in Urban China 6. Becoming
Visible: An Examination of Chen Qiulin's Farewell Poem (2002) and Jia
Zhangke's Still Life (2006) 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 8. Defining
Food (and its Waste) 9. Waste Through Different Eyes: Multi-Sited
Photovoice Explorations 10. Afterword: Planetary Potlatch: Scrutinizing the
Moral Economy of Recycling