Call for Papers: Cultures of Waste: Military and Corporate Complexes, Oxford Intersections Waste is not some inadvertent byproduct of war, but a central objective of its prosecution.

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Call for Papers: Cultures of Waste: Military and Corporate Complexes, Oxford Intersections

Abstract Deadline: 30 April 2026
Editors: Alex Souchen and Anne Berg

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#envhist #envstudies #militarystudies #discardstudies #militaryhistory #waste

Call for Papers: Cultures of Waste: Military and Corporate Complexes, Oxford Intersections Waste is not some inadvertent byproduct of war, but a central objective of its prosecution.

Call for Papers: Cultures of Waste: Military and Corporate Complexes, Oxford Intersections

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026
Editors: Alex Souchen and Anne Berg

niche-canada.org/2025/12/12/c...

#envhist #militaryhistory #militarystudies #envstudies #discardstudies #waste

Calling researchers working on #wastewater #contamination, #multispecies sensing or porous body–environment relations. I’m developing practice-based research on #wastewater as relation + method. If u work in feminist/crip/anti-colonial ecologies or #discardstudies, let’s connect!

Prepping class & arrested by a detail in Kazuo Ishiguro's 2017 Nobel Prize lecture. From his 1st days in England, he recalls "hedgehogs . . . squashed by car wheels during the night, left in the morning dew, tucked neatly by the roadside, awaiting collection by the refuse men."🦔
#DiscardStudies

European Commission - Have your say European Commission - Have your say

Hey #DiscardStudies folks. The European Commission has a public consultation period open until November 6 for its planned Circular Economy Act. If you have an article or post you want included, register and submit at ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Ein Screenshot von der Tagesschau, wo der Kanzler rassistisch über ein sog. reines Stadtbild philosophiert. Es gibt zu viele Migrant*innen und Obdachlose, die soz. runlungern. Titel des Artikels: "Merz' Problem mit dem Stadtbild"

Der Abfall, der Schmutz des Systems – Mary Douglas ruft an: Soziale Systeme entledigen sich Menschen, Dingen und Plätzen, die tatsächlich oder potenziell eine Gefahr darstellen, die eine gewünschte Ordnung infragestellen.

Darum geht es der #CDU und #Merz. Von Obdachlosen bis PoCs. #DiscardStudies

#discardStudies @carsoncenter.bsky.social

What a fantastic trio of interviews! @nycsanitation.bsky.social, these guys do you proud. #dsny #nyc #BestJobEver #DiscardStudies

Open Access from #HumanOrganization: Intersectionality & the Role of Place in Ethnographic Research on Informal Recyclers’ Livelihoods by Noleen R. Chikowore
doi.org/10.1080/0018...
@nrchikowore.bsky.social
#SfAA #InformalRecyclers #Intersectionality #Sustainability #DiscardStudies #CircularEconomy

‘Smartprice’ (2012)
132,000 waste plastic knives & forks.

The original statement inc the following prompts:

> What’s smart about a disposable range of #plastic that lasts 300-500yrs?

> What price would you pay to preserve the ecosystem that supports us all?

#discardstudies #closedloop

#discardstudies #plasticwaste #garbage

Gayle King Responds to Backlash Over ‘Expensive’ Blue Origin Flight: ‘I Wish People Would Do More Due Diligence’ Gayle King has responded to backlash over her Blue Origin flight, which saw an all-female crew take an eight-minute trip into space.

I’d been ignoring this whole hooha but then someone pointed this out:

The alleged purpose of the flight was “to figure out a way to harness the waste here and put it in space to make the Earth a better place.”

#DiscardStudies friends, please have at it!

LESSON 2 The Nature of Bullshit

Ooh this is a fantastic little course!

In the video for this section, AI produced material is compared directly to highway garbage.

The spiritual digital twin of the plastic bottle.

Easily produced, hard to clean up.

thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-2-the...

#DiscardStudies
#WasteSeige

To ensure compliance with trash laws, NYC considers deploying drones A privacy advocate said the notion of a "litterbug air force" was absurd.

A steady increase of airborne urban surveillance infrastructure. Mind your garbage! And also, wtaf. #UrbanInfrastructure #Surveillance #DiscardStudies #NYC #NYCSanitation

I would love to see this David Lynch PSA on the big screen. #discardstudies www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGl0...

Now available from #HumanOrganization: 'Discarding Well' After Disasters? Examination of Disaster Waste and Debris Management in the United States by A. Marissa Matsler, Keely B. Maxwell & Siena Henson doi.org/10.1080/0018...

@oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social
#discardstudies #waste #disaster #SfAA

Waste and recycling collection was fourth deadliest occupation in 2023: BLS The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data shows an increase in the rate of fatalities for the refuse and recyclable materials collection occupation. The total number of fatalities in MRFs also increa...

Discouraging but unsurprising news from the BLS. #DiscardStudies #LaborsOfWaste

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Along similar lines of thought, we have superb post-doc opportunity related to Discard Studies, Waste & Life at Haverford College.(Deadline Jan 9, 2025): apply.interfolio.com/158793
#discardstudies #waste&life

What’s better: a real or fake tree? The choice between a real tree and a fake tree boils down to how long you’re going to keep it. Here’s the break-even point.

Cue the seasonal debate: should you choose a real or fake Xmas tree? one5C wades thru the environmental pros and cons as part of their series "12 Days of Underconsumption." #DiscardStudies #Christmas #consumption

"Sell more. Waste more. Lie more. Hide more. Control more." The new @netflix.com documentary Buy Now is compelling & enraging (plus the super-creepy narration slaps). #DiscardStudies

Cars Still Get in the Way of Containerized Trash Pickup - Streetsblog New York City The Sanitation Department beat the rats, but its workers still have to take on parked cars.

Honored to be part of a @streetsblognyc.bsky.social story about how cars make san worker labor more difficult & compromise DSNY's containerization plans. Thank you, @kevinduggan.bsky.social, for solid reporting. #nycsanitation #discardstudies #nyc

Welcome to BlueSky everyone - really good to see new folks who aren't 'bots (!!). In the meantime, I am taking suggestions for a new grad course syllabus on Waste & Society #discardstudies #wastestudies

I decided I'm missing ye ole days at the other site, and want to get back into the fray in some way - hope to see more papers, conferences, theory in my feed 🤩 anybody #STS ing? #DiscardStudies ing?? #waste #naturebasedsolutions #NbS #greeninfra #disasterstudies #disasterwaste #environgovernance ??

Check out Anna K. Grasskamp's review of Waqas H. Butt's "Life Beyond Waste Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan," published in 2023 by @stanfordpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #envhist #discardstudies #waste #envtech 🗑️
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Shellac's album To All Trains is out today. It has a song called "Scrappers" and the band pictures are really photographs of pickup trucks filled with scrap. The LP is made of PET, not PVC. This is a #discardstudies friendly record.

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It is so interesting to see new life be rendered a cause of concern in the context of climate change. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f... #discardstudies #alterlife

Lingering in the Bedrock How much should we worry about radioactivity?

Today on our site we have "Lingering in the Bedrock" by Anna Storm

This is the seventh post in a series highlighting the work of the Nuclear Natures project.

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#nuclear #envhist #discardstudies

Making the Nature of Drigg’s Legacy Trench It is a negotiation of form of nuclear and nature that continues even after productive nuclear activities have left the landscape through the waste forms reified within it.

"It is a negotiation of form of nuclear and nature that continues even after productive nuclear activities have left the landscape through the waste forms reified within it." - Axel Sievers

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#envhist #discardstudies #nuclear #waste

Making the Nature of Drigg’s Legacy Trench It is a negotiation of form of nuclear and nature that continues even after productive nuclear activities have left the landscape through the waste forms reified within it.

Today on our site we have "Making the Nature of Drigg’s Legacy Trench" by Axel Sievers

This is the fourth post in a series highlighting the work of the Nuclear Natures project.

#envhist #nuclear #discardstudies

niche-canada.org/2024/02/02/m...

WASTE: CULTURAL IMAGINARIES AND MATERIALITY
PhD course with Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko and Paulina Kolata about waste from a humanities perspective.
Place: University of Copenhagen
Time: 22-24 April 2024
Registration by 1 February 2024: phdcourses.dk/Course/110216
#waste #phdcourse #discardstudies