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Waste and its disguises : technologies of (un)knowing

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Date
30/07/2020
Author
Alexander, Catherine
O’Hare, Patrick
Keywords
Waste
Epistemology
Ignorance
Unknowing
Denial
GN Anthropology
T-NDAS
BDP
R2M
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Abstract
The introduction to this special issue starts with a brief thematisation of the key theoretical interventions in the anthropology of waste in order to situate our own contribution. We follow this by discussing, and adding to the recent anthropology and sociology of ignorance and not knowing, before turning to the intersections between waste and ignorance, thinking through how we and other scholars have theorised ways of deflecting attention away from wastes, whether they are lands, material or human bodies. We broadly categorise these technologies of deflection and unknowing into ‘spatial’, ‘temporal’, ‘epistemological’, ‘calculative’ and ‘rhetorical’. Specific techniques within these categories serve to eclipse other ways of knowing (i.e. the sensory, affective aspects of waste (e)valuation) and often depoliticise decisions concerning wastes, places, materials, people and their livelihoods.
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Alexander , C & O’Hare , P 2020 , ' Waste and its disguises : technologies of (un)knowing ' , Ethnos , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1796734
Publication
Ethnos
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1796734
ISSN
0014-1844
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20401

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