Waste, Space, and Place
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2018) | Viewed by 60088
Special Issue Editors
Interests: applied anthropology; behavioral archaeology; infrastructure; E-waste; sustainability
Interests: cultural anthropology; permaculture; sustainability; waste; reuse
Interests: human-animal relations; animal studies; risk perception; risk mitigation; risk management; equine anthrozoology; safety; culture; horses; behavior change; natural disasters and emergencies; ethnography; mixed-methods research; Spain; bullfighting
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Interests: innovation and culture change; behavioral archaeology; hunter-gatherers; social complexity; archaeometallurgy; geoarchaeology; e-waste
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the twentieth century, landfills were the designated places to dispose of things that people no longer needed or wanted. However, rising human populations have increased both competition for space and concerns regarding pollution. While industrial and domestic waste present societal and environmental challenges, there are also important opportunities associated with the recovery of materials destined for non-use or landfills. Since the early 2000s, there has been a growing emphasis on the reduction, reuse, and recycling of waste as a preferable alternative to the sanitary landfills of the twentieth century. These practices destabilize ideas of what constitutes waste material, whilst creating a space through which to consider the diversion of material from places designated for waste. As such, researchers are increasingly focused on the productive potential of waste as a social, cultural and material resource (Pickren 2014; Reddy 2015, Reno 2014).
Whereas the waste sector has made substantial contributions to the direct measurement, mitigation, and recovery of waste, social science and humanities scholars are theoretically and methodologically well-suited for contextualizing the decisions people make to reduce, reuse, recycle, or discard material considered ‘waste’ within a web of socio-cultural, economic, and geopolitical factors.
This Special Issue brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities with waste management experts to incorporate a variety of voices and ideas typically left out of waste management discourse. We invite papers from multiple disciplines to engage with the topics of waste, wastage, wasting, waste-ability, rescue and salvage in relation to space and place. We are particularly interested in papers considering:
- Innovative social/technological solutions to mass waste;
- E-waste and the technologies we consume;
- The effects of space and scale on waste management
- How waste generates particular experiences of place and identity;
- Waste as an index of social relationships;
- The role of waste in the social construction of the places in which we live and work.
Dr Keri Chiveralls
Dr Kirrilly Thompson
Dr. H. Kory Cooper
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- anthropology of waste
- electronic waste
- space, place, and identity
- waste management
- sustainability
- resource recovery
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