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Anthropology of Garbage/Labors of Waste
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2002-05-31 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2002-04-02 |
| Announcement ID: |
130131 |
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Despite its rich potential as a subject of intellectual scrutiny, garbage is a largely neglected topic in anthropology, labor history, material culture studies, urban studies, landscape design, and sociologies of everyday life, to mention just a few disciplines. I am soliciting essays for an edited volume about the anthropology of garbage, focused especially on labors of waste. Who handles trash, in what contexts, from what histories, and with what effects? Contributions should be based on ethnographic research with communities, families, collectives, unions, and/or individuals (among other possibilities) involved in direct dealings with rubbish. I am particularly interested in data about persons and their relationship(s) with cultural structures arranged around the problem of rejected material things, with broad latitude allowed for the many varied ways in which that problem is constructed in different times and places. Ethnographic illustrations should be vivid; theoretical conclusions should illuminate intersections of materiality and social practice as demonstrated through customs and consequences of discard.
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Robin Nagle
Draper Program
14 University Place
New York University
New York City 10003
212-998-8065 (p)
212-995-4691 (f)
Email: robin.nagle@nyu.edu
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