Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 156
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-3012-6 • Hardback • November 2005 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-0-7425-3013-3 • Paperback • November 2005 • $41.00 • (£32.00)
978-0-7425-7891-3 • eBook • November 2005 • $39.00 • (£30.00)
Gay Hawkins is associate professor in cultural theory in the School of Media, Film, and Theatre at the University of New South Wales.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 1 An Overflowing Bin
Chapter 3 2 Plastic Bags
Chapter 4 3 Shit
Chapter 5 4 A Dumped Car
Chapter 6 5 Empty Bottles
Chapter 7 6 Worms
Chapter 8 Bibliography
Those who read this welcome addition to the field will be treated to a book that is well written, often clever, and surprisingly insightful.
— Grant J. Rich; PsycCRITIQUES
A broad-ranging and highly readable book.
— The Geographical Journal
Hawkins explores the intersections of habits, bodies, ethics, and waste matter, toggling her discourse between acknowledging the material reality of various wastes and the views derived from cultural theory. Presents alternative approaches to waste in today's world.
— CHOICE
This book is incredibly stimulating and is carried very lightly by Hawkins’ accessible and engaging writing. The Ethics of Waste is essential reading for anybody interested in contemporary approaches to waste but it is also an important addition to the sociological literature on consumption, practice and environment.
— Sociology
—Accessible to general readers and students of all levels while being soundly based in poststructuralist political theory.
—Opens up a new approach to environmental ethics and politics by investigating how we relate to rubbish and waste, rather than howwe relate to nature.
—Discusses larger issues of loss and waste, far beyond literal trash.
—Features examples from political demonstrations to hit movies to everyday experiences like sorting the recycling.
—Examples come from such places as Sydney andNew South Wales, Australia; Mumbai, India; 16th-century France; 19th-century England; Staten Island (NY) and Pennsylvania in the United States; and Japan.
—Refuses to moralize habits as good or bad, environmentally destructive or sustainable; instead, it shows how understanding waste's complex role in our lives might lead us to different ways of seeing it and living with it.
—Shows the different cultural definitions of what is rubbish and what isn't—one country's trash is another's resource.
—Seeks to capture the affect of waste, its capacity to disgust, surprise, and move us.