This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social
factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and
disposal in the Asia Pacific region, where impressive economic
growth has led to significant increases in production, consumption
and concomitant waste production. This volume demonstrates the
immense scope of waste as a multi-sectoral phenomenon, covering
discussions on food, menstrual products, sewage, electronics,
scrap, nuclear waste, plastics, and even entire villages as they
are submerged underwater by dam building, considered expendable in
favour of economic growth. It discusses the wide range of
approaches and contexts through which people interact with waste,
including socio-economic analysis, participatory observation,
laboratory science, art, video, installations, literature and
photography. Case studies focusing on India, China and Japan, in
addition to other regional examples, demonstrate the ubiquity of
waste, materially and geographically. It examines the duality of
waste management, fostering community building while simultaneously
excluding marginalised groups; how it can be linked to efforts
creating circular economies, to then reappear in oceanic garbage
patches; or technical waste repurposed for high-tech laboratory
research before being discarded once again. This timely and
wide-ranging collection of essays will be an important read for
scholars, researchers and students in sustainability, development
studies, discard studies, and social and cultural history,
particularly focusing on countries in the Asia-Pacific.
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