Petra Kuppinger is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Monmouth College, USA. She has conducted research on topics of space, globalization, and consumerism in Cairo, Egypt, and issues of space, culture, and Islam in Stuttgart, Germany. More recently she has been working on topics of urban transformations and sustainability.

• Chapter 1. Introduction : Second-hand Cultures and Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing and Care.- Chapter 2. Reuse and ReUse: Informal and Institutional Transfer of Used Goods.- Chapter 3. Social Capital in Secondhand Markets.- Chapter 4. Greening Farmers Markets: How Communities Come Together to Keep Items and Waste Out of the Landfill.- Chapter 5. “These System Will Provide their Own Lessons”: University Reuse Programs as Sites of Material Care and Educational Praxis.- Chapter 6. Fixing Coffeemakers and Giving Away Couches: Urban Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing, and Care in Germany.- Chapter 7. Ready to Repair: Teleologies of Secondhand Electronics Market and Repairing in Tanzania.- Chapter 8. “This is really genbrug!” International Mothers’ Consumption of Second-hand Children’s Good in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Chapter 9. Frictional Infrastructures: Navigating the Socio-Spatial Landscape of Second-Hand and Waste Tires in Mega-City Lagos.- Chapter 10. The Immense Possibilities of Six Yards of Cloth: Saris, Recycling, and Power in Indian Households.- Chapter 11. Reclaimed wood in a reclaimed city? Or, the story of Joe’s new table.- Chapter 12. Second-hand for the “Third World”: Charitable Gift Giving during Religious Volunteer-Tourism in the Dominican Republic.- Chapter 13. Secondhand Sacred: Christian Material Culture and Reseller Ethics.

Petra Kuppinger is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Monmouth College, USA. She has conducted research on topics of space, globalization, and consumerism in Cairo, Egypt, and issues of space, culture, and Islam in Stuttgart, Germany. More recently she has been working on topics of urban transformations and sustainability.

• Chapter 1. Introduction : Second-hand Cultures and Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing and Care.- Chapter 2. Reuse and ReUse: Informal and Institutional Transfer of Used Goods.- Chapter 3. Social Capital in Secondhand Markets.- Chapter 4. Greening Farmers Markets: How Communities Come Together to Keep Items and Waste Out of the Landfill.- Chapter 5. “These System Will Provide their Own Lessons”: University Reuse Programs as Sites of Material Care and Educational Praxis.- Chapter 6. Fixing Coffeemakers and Giving Away Couches: Urban Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing, and Care in Germany.- Chapter 7. Ready to Repair: Teleologies of Secondhand Electronics Market and Repairing in Tanzania.- Chapter 8. “This is really genbrug!” International Mothers’ Consumption of Second-hand Children’s Good in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Chapter 9. Frictional Infrastructures: Navigating the Socio-Spatial Landscape of Second-Hand and Waste Tires in Mega-City Lagos.- Chapter 10. The Immense Possibilities of Six Yards of Cloth: Saris, Recycling, and Power in Indian Households.- Chapter 11. Reclaimed wood in a reclaimed city? Or, the story of Joe’s new table.- Chapter 12. Second-hand for the “Third World”: Charitable Gift Giving during Religious Volunteer-Tourism in the Dominican Republic.- Chapter 13. Secondhand Sacred: Christian Material Culture and Reseller Ethics.

Petra Kuppinger is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Monmouth College, USA. She has conducted research on topics of space, globalization, and consumerism in Cairo, Egypt, and issues of space, culture, and Islam in Stuttgart, Germany. More recently she has been working on topics of urban transformations and sustainability.

• Chapter 1. Introduction : Second-hand Cultures and Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing and Care.- Chapter 2. Reuse and ReUse: Informal and Institutional Transfer of Used Goods.- Chapter 3. Social Capital in Secondhand Markets.- Chapter 4. Greening Farmers Markets: How Communities Come Together to Keep Items and Waste Out of the Landfill.- Chapter 5. “These System Will Provide their Own Lessons”: University Reuse Programs as Sites of Material Care and Educational Praxis.- Chapter 6. Fixing Coffeemakers and Giving Away Couches: Urban Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing, and Care in Germany.- Chapter 7. Ready to Repair: Teleologies of Secondhand Electronics Market and Repairing in Tanzania.- Chapter 8. “This is really genbrug!” International Mothers’ Consumption of Second-hand Children’s Good in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Chapter 9. Frictional Infrastructures: Navigating the Socio-Spatial Landscape of Second-Hand and Waste Tires in Mega-City Lagos.- Chapter 10. The Immense Possibilities of Six Yards of Cloth: Saris, Recycling, and Power in Indian Households.- Chapter 11. Reclaimed wood in a reclaimed city? Or, the story of Joe’s new table.- Chapter 12. Second-hand for the “Third World”: Charitable Gift Giving during Religious Volunteer-Tourism in the Dominican Republic.- Chapter 13. Secondhand Sacred: Christian Material Culture and Reseller Ethics.