UID:
almafu_9960943444402883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 144 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-5292-0657-X
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1-5292-0658-8
Series Statement:
Public sociology series
Content:
Critically analysing how waste is currently configured as a 'household' issue, this book illuminates the implications of these framings and how public sociology can engage critical publics to reorient waste as a global socio-ethical issue.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Oct 2022).
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Front Cover -- Series -- A Public Sociology of Waste -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editors' Preface -- 1 The Public Problem of Waste -- Introduction -- The public sociology of waste -- Studying waste issues and the public sociology of waste in brief -- 2 Framing Waste -- Introduction -- The problem of amplification: framing waste as an individual responsibility -- Framing waste as resource: now you see it, now you don't -- Framing waste as a social justice issue -- Framing waste as a public problem: resisting the techno-fix and reframing the amplification -- 3 The Public Problem of Recycling -- Introduction -- Making consumers responsible for our global waste problem -- Landfilling -- Incineration -- Recycling -- Recycling's profit margin -- The negative environmental impacts of using recycled materials -- Recycling creates waste -- A lot of materials cannot be recycled -- Recycling does not decrease extraction -- The environmental costs of transporting recycling -- The low-value limit -- Externalizing recycling costs to consumers -- The moral economy of recycling as a public problem -- 4 The Public Problem of Plastics -- Introduction -- The promise of plastics -- The plastics tide turned -- Oil by any other name: plastics recycling and the Green Energy Plan -- Conclusions: framing plastics recycling as an environmental good -- 5 The Public Problem of PPE Waste and Being Prepared -- Introduction -- Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war) -- Properly masked and drenched in Purell -- I've already been in this movie -- Conclusion: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure -- 6 A Public Sociology of Waste -- Introduction -- 'The trouble with normal is it always gets worse' -- Towards a public sociology of waste -- Phase 1: placentas are waste.
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Phase 2: placentas are not waste -- Phase 3: expertise and placenta rehabilitation -- Phase 4: placental research as moral imperative -- Appendix -- Phase 1: placentas are waste -- Phase 2: placentas are not waste -- Phase 3: expertise and placenta rehabilitation -- Phase 4: placental research as moral imperative -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5292-0656-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5292-0655-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.56687/9781529206586
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529206586/type/BOOK
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