Global Garbage

Christoph Lindner is Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.Miriam Meissner is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University.

• 1. Global Garbage, Urban Imaginaries PART I: Waste 2. Trashtopia: Global Garbage/Art in Francisco de Pájaro and Daniel Canogar 3. Dirty Familiars: Colonial Encounters in African Cities 4. Waste Not, Want Not: Garbage and the Philosopher of the Dump (Waste Land and Estamira) 5. The Paradox of Waste: Rio de Janeiro’s Praça XV Flea Market 6. Waste Streams and Garbage Publics in Los Angeles and Detroit PART II: Excess 7. Leftover Space, Invisibility and Everyday Life: Rooftops in Iran 8. Writing Rubbish About Naples: the Global Media, Post-politics and the Garbage Crisis of an (Extra-)Ordinary City 9. Dirt Poor/Filthy Rich: Urban Garbage from Radiant City to Abstention 10. Under the Spectacle: Viewing Trash in the Streets of Central, Hong Kong PART III: Abandonment 11. Geospatial Detritus: Mapping Urban Abandonment 12. Waste and Value in Urban Transformation: Reflections on a Post-Industrial ‘Wasteland’ in Manchester 13. On Beckton Alp: Iain Sinclair, Garbage and ‘Obscenery’ 14. Disposable Architecture – Reinterpreting Ruins in the Age of Globalization: the Case of Beirut

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