Format:
1 online resource (206 pages)
ISBN:
9781000656022
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Ser.
Content:
This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, considering the circular flows of waste and practices through 'infracycles', maintenance practices that tinker with the social and capitalist order. It will be of interest to environmental anthropology, science & tech, urban studies, & SEA studies.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- The Map to Begin With -- The Cambodian Waste Economy -- The Situatedness of the City's Recycling Economy -- Economies beyond the Scratch of the Pen -- Waste Fantasies -- Universalizing Waste -- Devaluation Work -- Vivid Infrastructures -- Circularities and Early Cybernetics -- Differences, Effects, and Information -- Infracycles - a Suggestion to Focus on Processes -- The Guiding Threat -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Embedded. A Past Futuring -- Chapter 1: Mapping the History of Waste -- Recycling as a Mundane Practice -- The Invention of Modernity: Plastic and Aluminum -- Fragments of a Cambodian History -- Going the Silk Road Backward -- Be Sure to Wear Some Plastic Flowers in Your Hair -- Shadow Times -- Rampant Marketization -- Postcolonial Infiltrations - Cambodia's Past Futuring -- Notes -- Sources -- Part II: Entangled. The Urban Recycling Infrastructure -- Chapter 2: Waste Trajectories and Circularities -- Practicing Waste Picking -- Becoming Part of the Community -- Naturalizing the Tools -- Following Waste through the Infrastructure -- Sorting and Transferring Recyclables to Intermediaries -- At the End of the Lane -- Knowing, Desiring, and Banalizing Waste -- (Infra-)Structural Violence - and a Proxy War on Waste -- Chasing Influence through Pricing Policy -- Exhibiting Relational Solidarity -- The Multiple Burdens of Khmer Women -- Facing Discriminations as a Waste Worker -- Infracycles -- Notes -- Sources -- Chapter 3: Tinkering with the New Order -- Repairing the Infrastructure -- Sustaining Jobs -- Strategies of Pity -- The Right to Flexibility -- Rebellions for the Sake of Freedom -- Opposing Capitalism in Pericapitalist Sites -- Note -- Sources.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032154664
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781032154664
Language:
English
