In Burning Matters, Peter C. Little examines the cultural, economic, and environmental health dimensions of electronic waste in Africa. Little draws on social science research to share the lived experiences of e-waste workers who burn bundles of electrical cables to extract copper, a practice that has raised concerns about toxic exposures to workers and urban environmental contamination. Little argues that interventions need to account for urban-rural migration and the sustainability of rural communities to reduce unnecessary toxic exposure
In Burning Matters, Peter C. Little examines the cultural, economic, and environmental health dimensions of electronic waste in Africa. Little draws on social science research to share the lived experiences of e-waste workers who burn bundles of electrical cables to extract copper, a practice that has raised concerns about toxic exposures to workers and urban environmental contamination. Little argues that interventions need to account for urban-rural migration and the sustainability of rural communities to reduce unnecessary toxic exposure
Peter C. Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College. He is author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks (2014).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction: From E-Waste Ashes to Ethnographic Intervention 1. Amidst Global E-Waste Trades and Green Neoliberalization 2. "We Are All North Here": Dagomba Migrations and Meanings 3. Erasure, Demolition, and Violent Obsolescence in the Urban Margins 4. Embodied Burning, E-Waste Epidemiology, and Toxic Postcolonial Corporality 5. Visualizing Agbogbloshie and Re-Envisioning E-Waste Anthropology 6. Looming Uncertainties and Neoliberal Techno-Optimism Conclusion: New Openings, Relations, and Burning Matters Notes References Index
Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction: From E-Waste Ashes to Ethnographic Intervention 1. Amidst Global E-Waste Trades and Green Neoliberalization 2. "We Are All North Here": Dagomba Migrations and Meanings 3. Erasure, Demolition, and Violent Obsolescence in the Urban Margins 4. Embodied Burning, E-Waste Epidemiology, and Toxic Postcolonial Corporality 5. Visualizing Agbogbloshie and Re-Envisioning E-Waste Anthropology 6. Looming Uncertainties and Neoliberal Techno-Optimism Conclusion: New Openings, Relations, and Burning Matters Notes References Index
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