Discard Studies Wasting, Systems, and Power

• Main Author: Liboiron, Max (auth)
• Other Authors: Lepawsky, Josh (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Environmental policy & protocols; Hazardous waste treatment & disposal; Environmental monitoring; Waste; pollution; trash; garbage; sustainability; environmental studies; power; infrastructure; green activism; plastic pollution; solid waste; environmental justice
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies l...