Accumulation (eBook, ePUB)

The Material Politics of Plastic
Redaktion: Gabrys, Jennifer; Michael, Mike; Hawkins, Gay

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Plastic has become emblematic of economies of abundance and ecological destruction. If the post-war 'plastics age' was cleaner and brighter than all that preceded it, this boosterism has now become intertwined with anxiety as the burdens of accumulating plastic wastes register in environments and bodies. This innovative book investigates how plastic accumulates functions, concerns, politics, properties and more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135090456
• Artikelnr.: 39190546

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Gabrys is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded project 'Citizen sensing and environmental practice'. Gay Hawkins is a Professorial Research Fellow in social and cultural theory and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Mike Michael is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From Materiality to Plasticity Part I: Plastic Materialities
1. Plastics, Materials and Dreams of Dematerialization 2. Process and
Plasticity: Printing, Prototyping and the Prospects of Plastic Part II:
Plastic Economies 3. Made to Be Wasted: PET and Topologies of Disposability
4. The Material Politics of Vinyl: How the State, Industry and Citizens
Created and Transformed West Germany's Consumer Democracy 5. Paying With
Plastic: The Enduring Presence of the Credit Card Part III: Plastic Bodies
6. The Death and Life of Plastic Surfaces: Mobile Phones 7. Reflections of
an Unrepentant Plastiphobe: An Essay on Plasticity and the STS Life 8.
Plasticizers: A Twenty-First Century Miasma 9. Plastics, the Environment
and Human Health Part IV: New Articulations 10. Where Does This Stuff Come
From? Oil, Plastic and the Distribution of Violence 11. International
Pellet Watch: Studies of the Magnitude and Spatial Variation of Chemical
Risks Associated with Environmental Plastics 12. Plastic and the Work of
the Biodegradable