Catherine Alexander is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. Before her current appointment, she worked at Goldsmiths for ten years. She has published widely on wastes and recycling – including Economies of Recycling, co-edited with Joshua Reno (Zed Books, 2012) – as well as economic and urban anthropology.

“An excellent topic. What I liked in particular was the sense of cohesion… The authors have addressed situations that speak to each other.” • Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University

• List of FiguresIntroduction: The Values of IndeterminacyCatherine Alexander and Andrew SanchezChapter 1. Kept in Suspense: The Unsettling Indeterminacy of US LandfillsJoshua O. RenoChapter 2. Experiments in Living: The Value of Indeterminacy in Trans ArtElena Gonzalez-PolledoChapter 3. The Production of Indeterminacy: On the Unforeseeable Futures of Postindustrial ExcessFelix RingelChapter 4. Human Waste in the Land of Abundance: Two Kinds of Gypsy Indeterminacy in NorwayCathrine Moe Thorleiffson and Thomas Hylland EriksenChapter 5. Waste People/Value Producers: Ambiguity, Indeterminacy and Postsocialist Russian-Speaking MinersEeva KeskülaChapter 6. Indeterminate Classifications: Being "More than Kin" in KazakhstanCatherine AlexanderChapter 7. The Politics of Indeterminacy: Boundary Dislocations around Waste, Value and Work in Subic Bay (Philippines)Elisabeth SchoberEpilogue: Indetertminacy: Between Worth and WorthlessnessNiko Besnier and Susana NarotzkyIndex

Catherine Alexander is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. Before her current appointment, she worked at Goldsmiths for ten years. She has published widely on wastes and recycling – including Economies of Recycling, co-edited with Joshua Reno (Zed Books, 2012) – as well as economic and urban anthropology.

“An excellent topic. What I liked in particular was the sense of cohesion… The authors have addressed situations that speak to each other.” • Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University

• List of FiguresIntroduction: The Values of IndeterminacyCatherine Alexander and Andrew SanchezChapter 1. Kept in Suspense: The Unsettling Indeterminacy of US LandfillsJoshua O. RenoChapter 2. Experiments in Living: The Value of Indeterminacy in Trans ArtElena Gonzalez-PolledoChapter 3. The Production of Indeterminacy: On the Unforeseeable Futures of Postindustrial ExcessFelix RingelChapter 4. Human Waste in the Land of Abundance: Two Kinds of Gypsy Indeterminacy in NorwayCathrine Moe Thorleiffson and Thomas Hylland EriksenChapter 5. Waste People/Value Producers: Ambiguity, Indeterminacy and Postsocialist Russian-Speaking MinersEeva KeskülaChapter 6. Indeterminate Classifications: Being "More than Kin" in KazakhstanCatherine AlexanderChapter 7. The Politics of Indeterminacy: Boundary Dislocations around Waste, Value and Work in Subic Bay (Philippines)Elisabeth SchoberEpilogue: Indetertminacy: Between Worth and WorthlessnessNiko Besnier and Susana NarotzkyIndex

Catherine Alexander is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. Before her current appointment, she worked at Goldsmiths for ten years. She has published widely on wastes and recycling – including Economies of Recycling, co-edited with Joshua Reno (Zed Books, 2012) – as well as economic and urban anthropology.

“An excellent topic. What I liked in particular was the sense of cohesion… The authors have addressed situations that speak to each other.” • Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University

• List of FiguresIntroduction: The Values of IndeterminacyCatherine Alexander and Andrew SanchezChapter 1. Kept in Suspense: The Unsettling Indeterminacy of US LandfillsJoshua O. RenoChapter 2. Experiments in Living: The Value of Indeterminacy in Trans ArtElena Gonzalez-PolledoChapter 3. The Production of Indeterminacy: On the Unforeseeable Futures of Postindustrial ExcessFelix RingelChapter 4. Human Waste in the Land of Abundance: Two Kinds of Gypsy Indeterminacy in NorwayCathrine Moe Thorleiffson and Thomas Hylland EriksenChapter 5. Waste People/Value Producers: Ambiguity, Indeterminacy and Postsocialist Russian-Speaking MinersEeva KeskülaChapter 6. Indeterminate Classifications: Being "More than Kin" in KazakhstanCatherine AlexanderChapter 7. The Politics of Indeterminacy: Boundary Dislocations around Waste, Value and Work in Subic Bay (Philippines)Elisabeth SchoberEpilogue: Indetertminacy: Between Worth and WorthlessnessNiko Besnier and Susana NarotzkyIndex