![]() ![]() In the face of the neo-nuclear era, when the majority of the global population dwells in an urban environment, one cannot imagine future social constructs and design praxis scenarios without first acknowledging the importance of the present. ![]() With case studies from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, China, the former Soviet Union, North America and Europe, this timely collection debunks common linear understandings of production, exchange and consumption and argues for a complete re-evaluation of North-South economic relationships. Following global material chains, this groundbreaking book reveals astonishing connections between persons, households, cities and global regions as objects are reworked, taken to pieces and traded. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with overviews of international material flows, Economies of Recycling radically changes the way we understand global and local economies as well as the new social relations and identities created by recycling processes. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified or analysed. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. For some, recycling is a big business for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. ![]()
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