Resisting the Wasteocene
Fighting the Global Dump
Resisting the Wasteocene
Fighting the Global Dump
Description
Challenging the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene, Resisting the Wasteocene highlights wasting relationships that produce both wasted people and ecosystems. This book exposes how such relationships seek to turn communities into socioecological dumps, while also tracing their forms of resistance.
Across case studies from Eastern Europe, Bangladesh, China, Senegal, Cuba, Italy, and more-and drawing on history, anthropology, cultural studies, and geography-it maps the toxic infrastructures that silence and normalize injustice. With its global, interdisciplinary scope and provocative critique of Anthropocene discourse, this volume makes the Wasteocene visible while opening possible pathways for resisting and escaping it.
Table of Contents
1. Green Ship Recycling: Camelia Dewan, University of Oslo, Norway
2. Circular Logics: Christine Hegel, Western Connecticut State University, USA
3. The landfill in Cuba: Claudia Lanzidei, University of Bologna, Italy
4. Poisoned by Peace, Damir Arsenijevic, University of Tuzla, Bosnia
5. Toxic narratives of the Wasteocene in Africa: Elijah Doro, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany
6. Making the Common in the factory: Francesca Gabbriellini, University of Bologna, Italy
7. In the cracks of the Wasteocene: Francesco Vettori, University of Bologna, Italy
8. “Born of the rubbish”: Patrick O'Hare, University of St Andrews, UK
9. Waste as lens to unpick the toxic narratives of 'climate migrants' in Dakar, Senegal: Sarah Walke, University of Bologna, Italy
10. Socialist Wasteocene: Viktor Pál, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
PART II: MIRRORS OF THE WASTEOCENE
11. Transcending the Wasteocene: Jason Moore, Binghamton University, USA
12. The Waste of the West?: Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
13. Reimagining Waste, Value and Commons: Julie Sze, UC Davis, USA
14. Wasteocene and Its Contribution to Reflect on the Global Ecological Crisis: Lingjing Wu, Xia Mingfang, Renmin University of China
Conclusion: Marco Armiero, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350546448 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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