PERSPECTIVES ON WASTE FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES: OPENING THE BIN

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Amid the uncertainty, though I hope today to bring on board some good news, and that is that new book with Cambridge Scholars, Perspectives On Waste From The Social Sciences And Humanities: Opening The Bin edited by Richard Ek and Nils Johansson is about to be published. I am delighted to be amidst contributing authors on the topic of waste, see the table of contents below. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/perspectives-on-waste-from-the-social-sciences-and-humanities| 2020-05-01

Waste is something we encounter on an everyday basis. Today, the waste-mountain is increasing despite ambitious measures being taken to decrease it. Consequently, increased scholarly interest is being devoted to waste, but primarily from a technocratic and scientific point of view. This compilation offers different perspectives on waste, its characteristics, and its presence in the world from social scientist and humanist standpoints. Waste is the constant companion to the human, and is thus inherent in modern society.

Therefore, waste needs to be further approached and understood from a plethora of scholarly perspectives and disciplines, and further investigated through a multitude of methodologies and data collection techniques. The imagination of a future where waste-preventive actions and circular economies permeate society can only be a reality if technocratic and scientific accounts of what is to be done, when, and how, are complemented by social scientific and humanist concepts of the nature and constitution of waste. Such a perspective offers the possibility to understand how waste is constituted through relationships, language, materials, politics, practices and structures. This book shows that philosophers, historians, cultural theorists and economists have much to offer on the topic of waste as a part of everyday modern life.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Opening the Bin to the Social Sciences and the
Humanities 3
Nils Johansson and Richard Ek

Chapter 1: Waste’s Social Order: A Historical Perspective 10
Anne Berg

Chapter 2: On Hauntology: A Turn To The Specter of Waste 24
Lisa Doeland

Chapter 3: Waste on Screen: Of Trashing, Littering and
Recycling in American TV-Series 41
Fanny Verrax

Chapter 4: Mending. Female Education in Waste Prevention
Over The Centuries 57
Heike Darwanz

Chapter 5: Moving Waste Around: Recycling and the
Governance of Waste Management 77
Myra J. Hird and Cassandra Kuyenhoven

Chapter 6: Waste, A Matter of Energy. A Diachronic
Analysis (1992-2017) of Waste-to-Energy Rationales 96
Laurence Rocher

Chapter 7: Environmental Concern in Waste Economy–A Case
Study of Waste Policy In Finnish Lapland 116
Veera Kinnunen, Heikki Huilaja,
Johanna Saariniemi and Jarno Valkonen

Chapter 8: Visualising the North Atlantic Gyre Patch 137
Katarina Dimitrijevic

Chapter 9: The Effect of Proximity on Waste Management
within the New Vision of Circular Economy in France 161
Jean-Baptiste Bahers and Mathieu Durand

Chapter 10:Waste-in-Becoming, Value-in-Waiting: On Market
Performativity and Value Propositions of Waste Electrical and
Electronic Equpment (WEEE) 176
Jennie Olofsson

Chapter 11: The Ocean as Thingspace. From The Ocean As
“Master of Disappearance” To The “Friendly Floatees” and a
New Ocean Cosmology 198
Petra Beck

Chapter 12: Designing For An Inclusive Waste Service:
Experiences from Applying Norm-Critical Design Methods
in Waste Service Development 215
Lisa Andersson, Marcus Jahnke,
Julia Jonasson and Rebecca Röström

Chapter 13: The Fashion Waste Management Process at ReTuna–
A Study of Unstable Classifications of Textile Goods 240
Lars Hedegård and Eva Gustafsson

Chapter 14: Apple’s Recycling Robot ‘Liam’ and the
Global Recycling Economy of E-Waste. What ‘The Guardian’
Does, And What He Misses Out On 265
Stefan Laser and Alison Stowell

List of Contributors 280

Pan to Panic from Transposons Pandemic

From pagan god Pan to panic from transposons pandemic: Greek word panikos, meaning sudden fear, combined with a pandemic which is a disease epidemic that has spread across a vast region, for instance, multiple continents. Pan, the pagan god, is among the dancing spirits in Dionysus’ entourage. Pan is the god of the wild, shepherds, flocks, nature of mountain wilds, father of Fauna. His energy is bawdy, lustful and mischievous. For clarity Fauna meaning the animal of the geological period, for example, I/We live in the human-made geological time of the Anthropocene. So I count my body as an animal representative to put it a complex bacterial, fungal and bio cell meta cluster of myself.

On another unwashed hand, a virus or transposons, also known as jumping genes, can represent a small parasite that cannot reproduce by itself. Once it infects a susceptible cell, however, a virus can direct the cell machinery to produce more viruses, like SARS-CoV-2 aka COVID-19 and his cousins SARS and MERS. Back to the word ‘panic’ which stems from Pan’s name and why I/We have the collective feeling of losing control because the ecstasy generated by his energetic presence can be too much to assimilate. Thus, in hope, I am fearless. Wish you all good health.

#StayAtHome #day9of quarantine

New Stock KraalD@Etsy Antler Wall Light

Material Reused Plastic

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Contemporary wall light that is hand made from reused plastic bottles with low energy fitting. The UK electrically certified fitting.

Light up your walls with stunning effects and enrich interior with childlike humour. Sculptural, wall-mounted. Low energy bulb supplied.https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/758530725/red-antler-wall-light?ref=shop_home_active_3&frs=1

Look & feel

Ready to hang and plugin, this wall fixture comes with :
– 2 x horns ,2 x eyes, 2 x ears and nose
– 1 x inline switch
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Designed and hand-made by KraalD
Note:
All reuse items are clean.

The length of the cord is 2,5 l/m.

Packaging and installation
The wall fixture is packed in a sturdy cardboard box.

How to install?
The Boki wall fixture is easy to install. All you need is wall nail or picture hook.

Colours

Hand made light fitting/sculptural product. Each fitting is different as persona although you can customize your order with specifying the colour of Horns (bottle caps) in the following colours: red, blue and green. Horns, eyes and nose and ears are all modular therefore you can alter face expression of your light as per your mood.Less

Design and Nature A Partnership

Edited by Kate Fletcher, Louise St. Pierre, Mathilda Tham

Proud to make the contribution, See SECTION III: Standing: Standing to achieve a view: Living Landfill Katarina Dimitrijevic https://routledge.com/Design-and-Nature-A-Partnership/Fletcher-Pierre-Tham/p/book/9780815362746… via @routledgebooks

Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world.

Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of nature as resource and by calling into question the longstanding role for design as agent of capitalism. The book puts forward ways in which design can form partnerships with living species and examines designers’ capacities for direct experience, awe, integrated relationships and new ways of knowing. It covers:

• New design ethics of care

• Indigenous perspectives

• Prototyping with nature

• Methods for new design and nature relations

• A history of design and nature

• Animist beliefs

• De-centering human-centered design

• Understanding nature has power and agency

Design and Nature: A Partnership is a rich resource for designers who wish to learn to engage with sustainability from the ground up.