: Catherine Alexander, Joshua Reno
: Economies of Recycling
: Zed Books
: 9781780321974
: 1
: CHF 39.50
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: Sonstiges
: English
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the largest export from the US to China was scrap. But despite the sheer scale of this global trade in used materials, it has yet to be clearly identified and examined. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with an overview of the international flow of materials, Economies of Recycling reveals the astonishing new social relations and identities created by recycling.