Europe’s Disappearing Waste

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Unanticipated Conflicts between Removal and Greening

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

2 369 kr

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Through ethnographic research conducted among landfill workers and waste pickers, Europe’s Disappearing Waste explores the inner workings of the Czech waste management system that is underpinned by the belief that waste should disappear. Waste streams give rise to underflows that provide opportunities for those who refuse to be passive witnesses of disposal and loss of value. The normative assumptions about market-based solutions and techno-optimism in waste management are called into question, directing attention to the commitment to salvage that provides an alternative way of relating to waste.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
Antal sidor234
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781836955511

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Daniel Sosna is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. His early career was focused on researching the social organization and mortuary practices of past societies. Daniel’s recent research builds methodologically upon ethnography and garbology, focusing on Central Europe. He is a co-editor of Archaeologies of Waste (Oxbow, 2017), with L. Brunclikova and Thrift and Its Paradoxes (Berghahn, 2022) with C. Alexander.