Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 144
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Trim: 6 x 9¼
978-0-7425-1981-7 • Hardback • December 2002 • $138.00 • (£106.00)
978-0-7425-1982-4 • Paperback • December 2002 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
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Gay Hawkins is a senior lecturer in the School of Media and Communications, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Stephen Muecke is professor of cultural studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Cultural Economies of Waste
Chapter 2 Out of Australia
Chapter 3 Miasma
Chapter 4 Invidious Distinction: Waste Difference and Classy Stuff
Chapter 5 Down the Drain: Shit and the Politics of Disturbance
Chapter 6 Decolonising the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies
Chapter 7 Psychic Waste: Freud, Fechner and the Principle of Constancy
Chapter 8 Hollywood's Pacific Junk: The Wreckage of Colonial History in Six Days and Seven Nights and Rapa Nui
Chapter 9 Trash as Archive, Trash as Enlightenment
Chapter 10 Devastation
We often hear that culture and economy are intertwined, but this absorbing collection suggests that the neglected category of waste may be the most revealing link between them. Moving, unsettling, and deeply thought provoking, this is a must-read book forcultural theorists, political economists, and curious readers alike....
— Meaghan Morris, Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
In myriad ways, cultural studies is facing and avoiding the problems of value(s): work on the culture of economics and the economics of culture are only the first and most obvious signposts. If death is the key to understanding human life, perhaps waste is the key to understanding culture as the production of value. This collection will make you laugh and squirm, but most importantly, it will make you reflect on some of those still protected alcoves of your common sense. The essays are as diverse, intriguing, and, sometimes, disturbing as the trash that increasingly defines our milieu...
— Lawrence Grossberg