Peter C. Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College. He is author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks (2014).

Burning Matters is ethnographically rich with Little's attention to detail and his elegant descriptions of labour and life around e-waste in Agbogbloshie. This thick ethnography sets a new bar for ethnographies of e-waste, precarious labour and urban African marginalities. In addition, the book excellently weaves together history, global forces, technologies and e-waste politics at Agbogbloshie. Burning Matters is a pioneer oeuvre and an excellent contribution to the growing body of ethnography of e-waste in urban Africa.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction: 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 NotesReferences Index

Peter C. Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College. He is author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks (2014).

Burning Matters is ethnographically rich with Little's attention to detail and his elegant descriptions of labour and life around e-waste in Agbogbloshie. This thick ethnography sets a new bar for ethnographies of e-waste, precarious labour and urban African marginalities. In addition, the book excellently weaves together history, global forces, technologies and e-waste politics at Agbogbloshie. Burning Matters is a pioneer oeuvre and an excellent contribution to the growing body of ethnography of e-waste in urban Africa.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction: 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 NotesReferences Index

Peter C. Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College. He is author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks (2014).

Burning Matters is ethnographically rich with Little's attention to detail and his elegant descriptions of labour and life around e-waste in Agbogbloshie. This thick ethnography sets a new bar for ethnographies of e-waste, precarious labour and urban African marginalities. In addition, the book excellently weaves together history, global forces, technologies and e-waste politics at Agbogbloshie. Burning Matters is a pioneer oeuvre and an excellent contribution to the growing body of ethnography of e-waste in urban Africa.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction: 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 NotesReferences Index