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This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the
Material Culture Section of University College London Anthropology.
In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the
anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new
directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The
contributors consider the ramifications of specific research
methods and explore new methodological frameworks to address areas
of human experience that require a new analytical approach. The
case studies draw from a range of contexts, including digital
objects, infrastructure, data, extraterrestriality, ethnographic
curation, and medical materiality. They include timely reappraisals
of now-classical analytical models that have shaped the way we
understand the object, the discipline, knowledge formation, and the
artefact.
Globalisation and neo-liberalism have seen the rise of new
international powers, increasingly interlinked economies, and mass
urbanisation. The internet, mobile communications and mass
migration have transformed lives around the planet. For some, this
has been positive and liberating, but it has also been destructive
of settled communities and ways of living, ecologies, economies and
livelihoods, cultural values, political programmes and identities.
This edited volume uses the concept of waste to explore and
critique the destructive impact of globalisation and
neo-liberalism. By bringing to bear the distinct perspectives of
sociologists of class, religion and culture; anthropologists
concerned with infrastructures, material waste and energy; and
analysts from accounting and finance exploring financialization and
supply chains, this collection explores how creative responses to
the wastelands of globalisation can establish alternative, at times
fragile, narratives of hope. Responding to the tendency in
contemporary public and academic discourse to resort to a language
of the 'laid to waste' or 'left behind' to make sense of social and
cultural change, the authors of this volume focus on the practices
and rhetorics of waste in a range of different empirical settings
to reveal the spaces for political action and social imagination
that are emerging even in times of polarisation, uncertainty and
disillusionment. This inter-disciplinary approach, developed
through a decade of research in the ESRC Centre for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), provides a distinctive perspective
on the ways in which people in very different social and cultural
contexts are negotiating the destructive and creative possibilities
of recent political and economic change.
This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the
Material Culture Section of University College London Anthropology.
In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the
anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new
directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The
contributors consider the ramifications of specific research
methods and explore new methodological frameworks to address areas
of human experience that require a new analytical approach. The
case studies draw from a range of contexts, including digital
objects, infrastructure, data, extraterrestriality, ethnographic
curation, and medical materiality. They include timely reappraisals
of now-classical analytical models that have shaped the way we
understand the object, the discipline, knowledge formation, and the
artefact.
Globalisation and neo-liberalism have seen the rise of new
international powers, increasingly interlinked economies, and mass
urbanisation. The internet, mobile communications and mass
migration have transformed lives around the planet. For some, this
has been positive and liberating, but it has also been destructive
of settled communities and ways of living, ecologies, economies and
livelihoods, cultural values, political programmes and identities.
This edited volume uses the concept of waste to explore and
critique the destructive impact of globalisation and
neo-liberalism. By bringing to bear the distinct perspectives of
sociologists of class, religion and culture; anthropologists
concerned with infrastructures, material waste and energy; and
analysts from accounting and finance exploring financialization and
supply chains, this collection explores how creative responses to
the wastelands of globalisation can establish alternative, at times
fragile, narratives of hope. Responding to the tendency in
contemporary public and academic discourse to resort to a language
of the 'laid to waste' or 'left behind' to make sense of social and
cultural change, the authors of this volume focus on the practices
and rhetorics of waste in a range of different empirical settings
to reveal the spaces for political action and social imagination
that are emerging even in times of polarisation, uncertainty and
disillusionment. This inter-disciplinary approach, developed
through a decade of research in the ESRC Centre for Research on
Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), provides a distinctive perspective
on the ways in which people in very different social and cultural
contexts are negotiating the destructive and creative possibilities
of recent political and economic change.
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