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Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste

Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste

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AnthropologyEnvironmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1399511742
ISBN13: 9781399511742
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 30 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Plastics, Environment, Culture and the Politics of Waste examines plastic as a distinct cultural, political, and environmental phenomenon. It outlines the intricate relationship with plastic that humanity has been building over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, drawing on examples from history, the arts, and literature, as well as examining the place of plastics in the current health, environmental, and energy crises. The aim of this book is to reveal the complex nature of plastics, from their rapid incorporation into our advancing ways of life, to the reenvisioning of plastics' role in human life and how, through abundant production, consumption, and disposal of plastics, humanity has initiated a toxic invasion of natural environments and human and nonhuman bodies. Bringing together various perspectives from the humanities, this edited collection contributes to the ongoing research on plastics and petrocultures and emphasizes the crucial significance of addressing the plastic crisis through culture.

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