The Star in the Dust-heap

The Star in the Dust-heap PDF Author: Louisa Lelias Greene (hon.)
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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The Star in the Dust-heap

The Star in the Dust-heap PDF Author: Louisa Lelias Greene (hon.)
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum PDF Author:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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Histories of the Dustheap

Histories of the Dustheap PDF Author: Stephanie Foote
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262304767
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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An examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary. Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Our responsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibility toward the systems that make those objects. Histories of the Dustheap uses garbage, waste, and refuse to investigate the relationships between various systems—the local and the global, the economic and the ecological, the historical and the contemporary—and shows how this most democratic reality produces identities, social relations, and policies. The contributors first consider garbage in subjective terms, examining “toxic autobiography” by residents of Love Canal, the intersection of public health and women's rights, and enviroblogging. They explore the importance of place, with studies of post-Katrina soil contamination in New Orleans, e-waste disposal in Bloomington, Indiana, and garbage on Mount Everest. And finally, they look at cultural contradictions as objects hover between waste and desirability, examining Milwaukee's efforts to sell its sludge as fertilizer, the plastics industry's attempt to wrap plastic bottles and bags in the mantle of freedom of choice, and the idea of obsolescence in the animated film The Brave Little Toaster. Histories of the Dustheap offers a range of perspectives on a variety of incarnations of garbage, inviting the reader to consider garbage in a way that goes beyond the common “buy green” discourse that empowers individuals while limiting environmental activism to consumerist practices.

International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science

International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science PDF Author:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 924

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Household Words :

Household Words : PDF Author: Charles Dickens
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256

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The International Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science

The International Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Household Words :

Household Words : PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 636

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The International Magazine of Literature, Art, and Science

The International Magazine of Literature, Art, and Science PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 618

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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum PDF Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 918

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