Author: Louisa Lelias Greene (hon.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Star in the Dust-heap
Author: Louisa Lelias Greene (hon.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The Athenaeum
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Histories of the Dustheap
Author: Stephanie Foote
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262304767
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262304767
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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
Author:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Household Words :
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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The International Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Household Words :
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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The International Magazine of Literature, Art, and Science
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
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