Culture and Waste : The Creation and Destruction of Value
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0742519813
ISBN-13
9780742519817
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 28th, 2002
Print length
144 Pages
Weight
360 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 15.30 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Sociology & anthropologyHuman geography
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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.'
Waste is a key category for understanding cultural value. It is not just the ''bad stuff'' we dispose of; it is material we constantly struggle to redeem. Cultures seem to spend as much energy reclassifying negativity as they do on establishing the negative itself. The huge tertiary sector devoted to waste management converts garbage into money, while ecological movements continue to stress human values and ''the natural.'' But the problems waste poses are never simply economic or environmental. 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.''
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