Europe’s Disappearing Waste

Daniel Sosna is a researcher and the deputy director of the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is, together with L. Brunclikova, a co-editor of Archaeologies of Waste (Oxbow, 2017), and, with C. Alexander, of Thrift and Its Paradoxes (Berghahn, 2022).

“This is an engaging account of landfill workers and others employed in waste disposal in Czechia …Sosna provides an honest and at times touching account of how waste is entangled in diverse social relations.” • Daniel Knight, University of St. Andrews

• List of Figures and TablesPrefaceIntroduction Chapter1. Knowledge GrowthChapter 2. Underflows of Waste StreamsChapter 3. Circular Disappearance of WastewaterChapter 4. Life on the MarginsChapter 5. Places of DisappearanceConclusionsEpilogueReferences