[Geogwaste] abstract looking for session

[David Evans]

Evening Wasters (better re-think the collective noun there - and the time zone)

Might I suggest approaching Alan Metcalfe (cc'd here) if you have not done so already...he is putting together an exciting set of waste sessions and may be able to accommodate

david

Dr David Evans
Lecturer in Sociology and Sustainable Consumption Institute Research Fellow
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
M13 9PL

tel: +44(0)161 275 0258
e-mail: david.evans-2 at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:david.evans-2 at manchester.ac.uk>
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From: geogwaste-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu [geogwaste-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu] on behalf of Freyja Knapp [freyja at berkeley.edu]
Sent: 27 September 2011 18:17
To: geographers of waste
Subject: [Geogwaste] abstract looking for session

Hi Waste Friends!

A colleague of mine at Berkeley (in geography) is looking for a session for his paper at AAG.  He lost his spot in the session he was expecting to be in because they wanted papers more focused on energy.  I thought his work would fit well with some of the waste sessions I've seen floating around - if any of you know of more, please forward away!

thanks and hope to see you at AAG this year!  I'm giving a 'mining' paper this year... exploring the other side to my 'waste'

Freyja

Abstract for Adam Romero        adam.romero at berkeley.edu<mailto:adam.romero at berkeley.edu>


Dark Value? Rethinking Waste and the Crises of Capitalism



Orthodox economic theory treats waste and pollution simply as a cost, usually externalized, which is incidental but otherwise unrelated to the production of value.   In this paper I explore new ways of thinking about the interplay of waste, pollution, scale, environmental crisis, and the production, circulation, and realization of value.  Drawing examples from the creation of the German dyestuffs industry, the chemicalization and standardization of California agriculture, and the production of alleged pollution abating environmental commodities, I argue that because insufficient attention has been paid to what constitutes an environmental crisis under capitalism, waste and pollution as a potential source of value production, circulation, and realization has been undertheorized as an outlet for overproduction and overaccumulation.  The reproduction of capital is premised on processes of substitution, replacement, simulation, opposition, and transformation, and often the objects of these processes are coaxed from the waste piles and pollution streams of industrial production.  Waste and pollution under capitalist modernity is a polycephalous beast, thus conceptualizing and theorizing waste is fraught with complications and competing approaches.  This paper is an attempt to bring some disparate thoughts about waste and pollution to bear on value theory and the crises of capitalism.

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Freyja Knapp, MLA
PhD Student, Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
University of California, Berkeley
email: freyja (at) berkeley (dot) edu
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