Trash talk: if dirt really is just matter out of place, what can South London's streets tell us about littering and cleaning, conviviality and displacement, urban decay and regeneration?
A #TSRWaste issue archive selection by Francisco Calafate-Faria.
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“We are left behind. There’s no other way out besides working as sweepers.”
Amit Balmiki meets the Gandharvas, who have lost their identity as Nepal’s performing artists and now make a living as waste workers in the tourist town of Pokhara.
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“We’re doing what is possible in the current situation to unite people, support them and support grassroots activism.” Alexandrina Vanke joins the Russian eco-activists sorting waste and creating hope in the shadow of war.
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When the app gives you lemons: When Aline Stehrenberger’s research participants ordered surprise boxes from a food surplus service, they were keen to use as much as possible, but some of it ended up as waste.
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“We have realised that there is no ‘away’ when we throw things away.”
Mark Parsons (University of Sheffield) writes in our #TSRWaste issue about his students’ radical architectural designs that incorporate, and celebrate the histories of, waste materials.
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Disposable issues: The Sociological Review magazine’s #TSRWaste issue looks at wasted resources, wasted opportunities and wasted lives.
Contributions from Miriam Emefa Dzah, @jedalegado.bsky.social, Aline Stehrenberger, Amit Balmiki, Mark Parsons, Alexandrina Vanke and many more.
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“Waste produced by the rich white world is cleaned by bodies who are physically & mentally exhausted from the effects of racism and the work of cleaning.”
Asiya Islam interviews decolonial feminist scholar Françoise Vergès in The Sociological Review magazine’s new #TSRWaste issue.
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“It’s lip-service to profit until the Earth implodes.”
Katie Beswick’s sonnet sequence in our new #TSRWaste issue depicts the social, political and environmental impacts of London’s #ULEZ low-emission zone policies.
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Buying leftover food at a discount seems like an ideal solution to the problem of food waste. But, observes researcher Aline Stehrenberger in our #TSRWaste issue, food surplus apps may merely be shifting responsibility for the problem to consumers.
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What does Zygmunt Bauman‘s “Sociology and Postmodernity” say about consumption and environmental limits? Can the sociology of consumption find itself at the vanguard of thinking about modernism once again?
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Wasted places, wasted lives: Why does Europe’s rubbish pollute the beaches of #Senegal?
In our #TSRWaste issue, @stowsarah.bsky.social meets the fishing communities torn apart by urbanisation, global economic forces and the unequal impacts of the climate crisis.
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“We have realised that there is no ‘away’ when we throw things away.”
Mark Parsons (University of Sheffield) writes in our #TSRWaste issue about his students’ radical architectural designs that incorporate, and celebrate the histories of, waste materials.
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Trash or treasure: What’s the connection between today’s wasteful habits and the Bronze Age practice of burying precious metal objects? Archaeologist Sabrina Autenrieth digs for answers in our new #TSRWaste issue.
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Delighted to be part of this #TSRWaste issue, packed with fascinating articles on waste, including Françoise Vergès in conversation with @asiyaislam.bsky.social on how colonisation and racial capitalism are based on wasting
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“The classification of items as waste leads to their becoming ‘out of sight, out of mind’ – culturally invisible.”
“A Brief Pre-History of Food Waste and the Social Sciences” by David Evans, Hugh Campbell and Anne Murcott is #Freetoview in our #TSRWaste issue.
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“Shown a dirty peanut butter jar, Mark admitted he would be very unlikely to wash it.”
”‘It’s Kind of Saving them a Job isn't it?’ The Consumption Work of Household Recycling” by Kathryn Wheeler and Miriam Glucksmann is #Freetoview in our new #TSRWaste issue.
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”Clothes made from clothes”: a closer look at recycling post-consumer fibres and our ideas of cleanliness.
“Waste, dirt and desire: Fashioning narratives of material regeneration” by Lucy Norris is #Freetoview in our new #TSRWaste issue.
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“When was the last time you thought about waste? It’s everywhere – and an important lens through which to examine our relationships with other humans, non-humans, the environment, and inequality and injustice.”
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Caste aside: the Gandharva community – once the performing artists of Nepal – now carry out the stigmatised job of cleaning up in the tourism capital of Pokhara.
Amit Balmiki reflects on caste, deskilling and identity loss in our #TSRWaste issue.
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“Waste workers have no formal job contracts or social protection, no labour rights and no bargaining power over the price of waste.”
In our new #TSRWaste issue, Joseph Edward B. Alegado meets the precarious workers in the Philippines dealing with a deluge of plastic.
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Wasted goods, wasted lives: our #TSRWaste issue, edited by @asiyaislam.bsky.social , draws on thinkers from Françoise Vergès to Zygmunt Bauman to take a closer look at food apps, sanitation workers and fishing communities, floods of fast fashion in Ghana, and much more.
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