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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Discard Studies"”.
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Recovering Requeche and Classifying Clasificadores: An Ethnography of Hygienic Enclosure and Montevideo’s Waste Commons
… on Montevideo’s political and moral economy of discards as experienced through the lives and labour of waste-pickers around Uruguay’s largest landfill, Felipe Cardoso. These workers are known as clasificadores [classifiers] in recognition of their role separating whatever can be recovered from …
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From the Trashcan to the Chicken Bucket: towards an ideology of composting
My thesis aims to unobscure the ideology of wasting through embodied storytelling, philosophical inquiry, and sociopolitical history. In particular, I take the trashcan as a material representation of an "edge of externalization" --a concept I explore throughout this thesis to describe the edges …
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Void Ecologies: Resistance, Commoning and Pleasure in the Discard Space
… theoretical and historical ties between discard spaces (or spaces left “outside systems of spatial configuration and signification” (Dibazar 2016, 212) and practices of re-commoning (or reclaiming resources) that address environmental, racial and gendered injustices. I examine discard …