Circular economies in an unequal world
waste, renewal, and the effects of global circularity
- ISBN: 9781350296633
- Editorial: Bloomsbury Academic
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 248
- Idiomas: Inglés
This landmark first anthropological open access volume on the topic of 'circular economies' brings together a range of international scholars with regional specialisations in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America to examine the concept's global implications.
Aspirations towards a circular economy have become increasingly prominent around the world, yet until now, social anthropology has largely neglected the potentially deep social impacts of this concept, despite its obvious implications through every level of the economy and society.
This volume covers a diverse array of international actors, including waste-pickers, traders and policymakers, and the global movement of materials like metals, plastic and textiles. Through ethnographic and qualitative case studies, it exposes many of the tensions that exist between state and corporate ideals of the circular economy, and the vernacular practices and philosophies that exist around the world. Contributors examine the frictions that emerge as these concepts and materials travel across different geographic contexts, and ask - what can an anthropological analysis contribute to a concept that is increasingly reshaping economies and restructuring global flows of virgin commodities, recyclables, and waste?
1. The Circular Economy of Metals and the Challenges of its Globalisation in Ghana - Dagna Rams, London School of Economics, UK
2. Making E-Waste Circular: Countering Vicious Circles and Materialising Honesty - Julia Perczel, University of Manchester, UK
3. Stimulating Economies: Mmaking Plastics Circular in Uruguay - Patrick O'Hare, University of St Andrews, UK
4. Circular Economy and Servitization: Negotiating the EU's New Green Agenda in Greece - Aliki Angelidou, Panteion University, Greece, and Mimina Pateraki, Hellenic Open University, Greece.
5. Disruptive but Normalising?: What the Formalisation of Informality Can Tell us About the Circular Economy in the Global South - Sebastián Carenzo and Lucas Becerra, CONICET/ National University of Quilmes, Argentina
6. - In the Shadow of Waste: The Politics of a Changing Recycling Economy in Cartagena, Colombia - Laura Neville, University of Lausanne, French
7. Circular Economy of Wastewater: Recirculation, Spinning, and Rolling to the Future - Daniel Sosna, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
8. The Circular Economy Law for Textiles in Germany and its Predecessors - Heike Derwanz, Institut für das künstlerische Lehramt, Vienna, Austria
9. The Circular Economy in China: For the People? With the People? - Benjamin Steuer, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
