A Public Sociology of Waste

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0656-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 262 g

Is it possible for individuals to tackle waste by recycling, reusing and reducing alone?

This provocative book critically analyses the widespread assumption that individuals and households have created our global waste crisis.

Sociologist and waste expert Myra J. Hird reveals neoliberal capitalism’s fallacy of infinite growth as the real culprit, and demonstrates how industry and local governments work in tandem to deflect our attention away from the real causes of our global waste problem.

Hird offers crucial insights into the relations between waste and wider societal issues including ongoing (settler) colonialism, poverty, racism and sexism, and showcases how sociology may provide solutions through a ‘pubic imagination’ of waste.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hird, Myra J

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Public Problem of Waste

2. Framing Waste

3. The Public Problem of Recycling

4. The Public Problem of Plastics

5. The Public Problem of PPE Waste and Being Prepared

6. A Public Sociology of Waste

Über Autor(innen)

Hird, Myra J
Myra J. Hird is Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University in Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Myra J. Hird is Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at Queen’s University in Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.