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One Introduction: narratives of organising waste in the city
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Abstract
The chapter describes how waste becomes both a narrative and a narrator of the society in which it is embedded, and how the socio-materiality of waste relates to the way we engage with the materiality of waste in the course of our everyday life. Then, the chapter introduces the four sections that set out the aim of this book: spaces, places and sites of waste in the city; global waste discourses and narratives shaping local practices; waste governance and management practices; and how civil society is responding and sometimes contesting waste policies, and what issues of environmental, economic and social injustice emerge from this struggle.
Abstract
The chapter describes how waste becomes both a narrative and a narrator of the society in which it is embedded, and how the socio-materiality of waste relates to the way we engage with the materiality of waste in the course of our everyday life. Then, the chapter introduces the four sections that set out the aim of this book: spaces, places and sites of waste in the city; global waste discourses and narratives shaping local practices; waste governance and management practices; and how civil society is responding and sometimes contesting waste policies, and what issues of environmental, economic and social injustice emerge from this struggle.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures and tables v
- Abbreviations vi
- Notes on contributors viii
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction: narratives of organising waste in the city 1
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Spaces, places and sites of waste in the city
- The ecological and environmental significance of urban wastelands and drosscapes 21
- The function of waste urban infrastructures as heterotopias of the city: narratives from Gothenburg and Managua 41
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Global waste discourses and narratives shaping local practices
- When clean and green meets the Emerald Isle: contrasting waste governance narratives in Ireland and New Zealand 63
- Waste in translation: global ideas of urban waste management in local practice 83
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Waste governance and management practices
- Governance in a bottle 99
- Hybrid organisations in waste management: public and private organisations in a deregulated market environment 121
- Waste management companies: critical urban infrastructural services that design the sociomateriality of waste 139
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Waste and environmental, economic and social justice
- Cairo’s contested waste: the Zabaleen’s local practices and privatisation policies 159
- Ecomodern discourse and localised narratives: waste policy, community mobilisation and governmentality in Ireland 181
- Waste collection as an environmental justice issue: a case study of a neighbourhood in Bristol, UK 201
- Conclusions: framing the organising of waste in the city 223
- Index 237
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures and tables v
- Abbreviations vi
- Notes on contributors viii
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction: narratives of organising waste in the city 1
-
Spaces, places and sites of waste in the city
- The ecological and environmental significance of urban wastelands and drosscapes 21
- The function of waste urban infrastructures as heterotopias of the city: narratives from Gothenburg and Managua 41
-
Global waste discourses and narratives shaping local practices
- When clean and green meets the Emerald Isle: contrasting waste governance narratives in Ireland and New Zealand 63
- Waste in translation: global ideas of urban waste management in local practice 83
-
Waste governance and management practices
- Governance in a bottle 99
- Hybrid organisations in waste management: public and private organisations in a deregulated market environment 121
- Waste management companies: critical urban infrastructural services that design the sociomateriality of waste 139
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Waste and environmental, economic and social justice
- Cairo’s contested waste: the Zabaleen’s local practices and privatisation policies 159
- Ecomodern discourse and localised narratives: waste policy, community mobilisation and governmentality in Ireland 181
- Waste collection as an environmental justice issue: a case study of a neighbourhood in Bristol, UK 201
- Conclusions: framing the organising of waste in the city 223
- Index 237
