Waste, Environmental Politics and Dis/Engaged Publics
Waste is a major global environmental issue that assembles socio-cultural and bio-geological processes in complex indeterminate relationships. Drawing on three case studies, this article explores the shifting environmental politics concerned with waste’s material, economic, political, and cultural ‘...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0263276414565717 2024-04-28T08:32:50+00:00 Waste, Environmental Politics and Dis/Engaged Publics Hird, Myra J 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276414565717 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0263276414565717 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0263276414565717 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Theory, Culture & Society volume 34, issue 2-3, page 187-209 ISSN 0263-2764 1460-3616 General Social Sciences Sociology and Political Science journal-article 2015 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414565717 2024-04-02T08:14:35Z Waste is a major global environmental issue that assembles socio-cultural and bio-geological processes in complex indeterminate relationships. Drawing on three case studies, this article explores the shifting environmental politics concerned with waste’s material, economic, political, and cultural ‘management’. The Canadian case studies – determining a new waste management technology in a mid-sized city in central Ontario, an open dump in a remote Nunavut community, and an abandoned gold mine in the Northwest Territories – suggest waste occasions particular material and political mobilizations. Landfill leachate, colonialism, disinterested publics, freezing arsenic, global corporate investments, country food, land claims, neoliberal governance, permafrost, ravens, and a host of other socio-material forces both empower and thwart ‘management’ politics. Through these case studies, this article explores Isabelle Stengers’s assertion that participating citizenship is an ‘Empty Great Idea’, and a provocation to consider the contexts in which waste may generate acquiescent or objecting publics. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Territories Nunavut permafrost SAGE Publications Theory, Culture & Society 34 2-3 187 209 |
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Waste is a major global environmental issue that assembles socio-cultural and bio-geological processes in complex indeterminate relationships. Drawing on three case studies, this article explores the shifting environmental politics concerned with waste’s material, economic, political, and cultural ‘management’. The Canadian case studies – determining a new waste management technology in a mid-sized city in central Ontario, an open dump in a remote Nunavut community, and an abandoned gold mine in the Northwest Territories – suggest waste occasions particular material and political mobilizations. Landfill leachate, colonialism, disinterested publics, freezing arsenic, global corporate investments, country food, land claims, neoliberal governance, permafrost, ravens, and a host of other socio-material forces both empower and thwart ‘management’ politics. Through these case studies, this article explores Isabelle Stengers’s assertion that participating citizenship is an ‘Empty Great Idea’, and a provocation to consider the contexts in which waste may generate acquiescent or objecting publics. |
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