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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Dumpster"”.
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From the Dumpster to the Bookshelf: Literature Written by Black Women in Brazil and the Quest for Mobility from 1960 to the Present
In this dissertation project, I argue that eight black women writers and a collective of black women writers produced literature that defy assigned spaces in Brazilian urban spaces starting in 1960 until the present. I particularly analyze Lélia Gonzalez and Beatriz Nascimentos’ academic essays; …
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In different tongues
… dog Kyno. When Kyno's body is discovered in a dumpster on the outskirts of town, Kate can no longer stifle the changes which have been taking place: as language withers, Kate gives up the rush of memory, the human race.
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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
… dream of a return to hunter-gatherer behavior by dumpster diving in the urban and industrial settings; similarly, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers insisted that the auto worker was the key to revolution even as it decorated its newsletters with panthers and African masks. By focusing on …
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Hedonistic deconsumption and upcycling: active, emotional and pleasurable engagement with waste
… alternative practices such as freeganism, dumpster diving, and upcycling in particular, show emotional engagement with waste is evident, but underexplored. Alternative practices, and their apparent emotional and expressive nature, could hold the potential for a more widespread, celebrated …
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"A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People": Globalizing Cities, World-Class Waste, and the Biopolitics of Food Not Bombs
… cultural communities in which they are embedded--Dumpster-divers, squatters, homeless advocates, punks, anarchists, and so on--in Seattle, New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Melbourne, Australia, and several other cities. It describes the link between urban globalisation and the proliferation …
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The Progression of Recycling in Bowling Green, Kentucky
… throw recyclables such as cardboard into their dumpster even though they have a cardboard bailer on the premises. This research will also offer reasons for people choosing not to use the recycling program. I have conducted a survey of one hundred people who live in the Bowling Green area. This …
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Enacting other foodworlds: Affective food initiatives performing a care-full politics of difference
… and diverse food practices involved in dumpster diving, farmers’ markets, the Crowd Grown Feast, and in the production through practice (or “enaction”) of foodbox kale. This work advances a set of methods that involve spending intensive time in the field, sensing and reflexively …
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Copying strategies to chronic floods in Kuku residential area in Lusaka district, Zambia: a hermeneutic phenomenology study.
… garbage within Kuku residential area, mobile dumpster, construction of an organic manure centre, environmental education to be embraced by the residents, inclusive area improvement and sensitization programs to be put in motion, provision of garbage collection services by the local authority, …
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Leftovers: A Search for the Freegan Ideal
No abstract. Abstract optional for professional papers.
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Leftovers: A Search for the Freegan Ideal
No abstract. Abstract optional for professional papers.
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The recyclists : bikes, borders and basura
In January, 2009, I joined Bikes Across Borders, a local grassroots organization, on their yearly bike caravan to Mexico. The group works to promote bicycles, both here and in Mexico, as an environmentally and financially sound alternative to motorized transportation. Each winter, members ride …