Understanding Waste

A Multidisciplinary Introduction

AvHervé Corvellec,Mathieu Durand

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Waste is omnipresent, with consequences that are increasingly visible. Despite considerable efforts by the waste-management sector to keep waste out of sight and out of mind, current waste levels pose a challenge to the welfare of today and tomorrow, from the squandering of resources to lasting environmental harm.Understanding Waste provides a multidisciplinary introduction to the diversity of waste, including its definitions, physical properties and governance. It describes the spatial rationales for waste from local to global levels, stressing the injustices that characterise how waste is collected and processed. It also explains why contemporary societies are so waste-intensive, demonstrating why so many have an interest in producing waste and suggesting that everyone is implicated in wastework. Furthermore, it suggests that waste is an underestimated source of knowledge and creativity. Readers are invited on an intriguing journey into the underworld of waste, which we all participate in constantly.Accompanied by a series of practical exercises that encourage a reflexive engagement with waste, Understanding Waste: A Multidisciplinary Introduction offers a kickstart to the emerging fields of Waste Studies and Discard Studies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-29
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032600376

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Hervé Corvellec is a professor in business administration at the Department of Service Studies, Lund University, Sweden.Mathieu Durand is a professor of geography and urban planning at the Space and Society Research Centre at Le Mans University, France.Alison Stowell is a senior lecturer in organisation, work and technology at Lancaster University Management School, UK.

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“This incisive book explores the material, political and epistemic provocations of waste. Simultaneously sophisticated and accessible, it isn’t a book about waste, it is a book that thinks with waste and sheds new light on what we so often discard and deny.” Emeritus Professor Gay Hawkins, Western Sydney University, Australia.“This is a much-needed publication which deserves a wide readership. Corvellec, Durand and Stowell are enormously helpful in showing how the powerful drivers of waste production are not matched by the waste reduction and removal processes. The processes involved implicate the whole world. We need to read this book.” Emeritus Professor Stephen Ackroyd, Lancaster University, UK.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Definitions: The Contours of Waste 2. Materialities: Physical Properties and Social Constructions of Waste 3. Governance: Local Governments at the Heart of Waste Management 4. Geography: Waste Mobilities and Spatial Justice 5. Economy: Organisational Rationales for Waste 6. Work: Shifted, Overlooked and Stigmatised 7. Epistemology: Waste as a Ground for Knowledge