Waste as a Critique

Hervé Corvellec has over 20 years of experience in interdisciplinary research environments, during which he has conducted research about railroad planning, risk in public transportation, and wind power siting. This general interest in infrastructures has guided him to focus on the governance, planning, and organizing of waste management; wasting behaviours and practices; waste ethics; waste narratives and discourses; and social-scientific theories of waste. He has published his research about waste and the circular economy in waste journals, as well as journals within the fields of accounting, cultural geography, management, organization theory, and social anthropology.

• List of FiguresList of TablesNotes on Contributors1: Hervé Corvellec;David Bevan: Introduction: Towards a Critical Waste-Based EpistemologyPart I. Materiality2: Josh Lepawsky: Weaponizing Waste3: Jennie Olofsson: On the Socio-Material Practices of Leakage Control: Waste Infrastructures and Bodily Discharges4: Taru Lehtokunnas;Elina Närvänen: From Thin to Thick Relationships with Objects: Constituting Subjectivity through Consumer-Object Folds5: Olli Pyyhtinen;Alma Onali;Stylianos Zavos: Waste as Posthuman CritiquePart II. Society6: Nadine Arnold: Feeding the Critique of Standards with Waste: Exclusion and Reactions in Food Systems7: Marisa Solomon: From Refuse to Refusal: Disrupting Racial Capitalism's Wasting Relations8: Jutta Guttberlet;Isabella de Carvalho Vallin: Grassroots Social Innovation of Waste Pickers as Critique of the Existing Social Order9: Hervé Corvellec: A Critique of Heroic EfficacyPart III. Economy10: Zsuzsa Gille: Waste as a Critique of the Concept of the Economy11: Melanie Samson: Not at Our Disposal: Reclaimers' Critique of Disposability Capitalism12: Patrik Zapata;Marí a José Zapata Campos: Waste Commoning as Critical Answer to the Property Question13: Myra J. Hird;Gabriella Dee: Mother Earth and Her Three Little Wasteful Pigs: Waste Reduction through DegrowthPart IV. Temporality14: Kun Wang;Raymond Yu Wang: Waste, Temporalities, and Critique on Event-Based Environment Justice: A Political Ecology of Slow Violence of China's Production Wastescapes15: Zachary Riebeling: Waste and the Historical Future16: Dietmar Offenhuber: Wasting to Slow Down Time: The Paradox of Informational Waste17: Kelly Alexander;Joshua O. Reno: Attempting to Waste Time: An Exploration of Freewheeling Creativity in Kitchens and Gaming RoomsIndex