[Geogwaste] 2nd Call for Panelists AAG 2014 | Waste Regimes: The Material and Political Waste Which We Live by in Different Localities

[Yvonne Rollins]

Combining political ecology, resource geography, and environmental justice
approaches, this panel on "waste regime" seeks to understand the economic,
political, and material dynamics through which waste is produced,
conceptualized, and politicized (Gille 2007, 9). Grounded by concrete
ethnographic research on garbage, everyday experiences of ordinary people,
governmental and non-governmental actors, development projects tactics, and
so on, we ask what values are embedded in these roles played by many
institutions and actors who locate and position themselves differentially
in the local and global processes of treating, sorting, trading, and
recycling waste. We also ask how certain value prevails whereas others are
undermined and further how "value regime" (Appadurai 1986) operates in
different ontological, cultural, material, and political settings.
Geographically and geopolitically, the panel is open to all varieties,
including but not limited to Austria, Nepal, Tibet, the U.S. and
transnational organizations, as well as capitalist, (post)socialist, and
tribal regimes. We aim to bring forth discussions on various topics on
multiple material forms of waste, i.e., food waste, plastics,
biodegradables, recyclables, etc., and multiple forms of management, for
example, industrial processes, waste-to-energy, state sanction, development
recycle programs, and so forth. Common interests embedded in these topics,
however, include the materialistic, politicized aspects and perspectives
towards waste regimes. Shared method highlights the place-based approach,
grounding often too-abstracted notions regarding waste with concrete lived
experiences. Ultimately, we aim to reveal the intricacies and complexities
of which persons, institutions, and things are intertwined, differentiated,
separated and grouped in the physical spaces as well as the imagined
geographies.


*References*

Appadurai, Arjun. 1986. "Introduction: Commodities and the Politics of
Value," in his, ed., The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural
Perspectives. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gille, Zsuzsa. 2007. From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History
the Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary. Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press.


*Joining Instructions*

·         As per AAG guidelines, this panel session will involve brief
presentations by 4-6 panelists and a discussant whose role is to pull
themes together and pose questions to the panel.  This allows panelists to
present a paper in another session.

·         Therefore please forward only your Program Identification Number
(PIN) to panel organizers by December 3 2013 (registration deadline).  No
abstracts are necessary, however a short paragraph to indicate each
panelist’s likely topic would be helpful.



*Organizers*

This panel is organized by Ruth Lane (ruth.lane at monash.edu), Bo Wang (
bwang36 at wisc.edu) and Craig Harris (harrisc at msu.edu).  The discussant will
be Andrew Brooks (andrew.brooks at kcl.ac.uk) and the session will be chaired
by Ruth Lane (ruth.lane at monash.edu).


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*Yvonne Rollins | *PhD Candidate | Geography (Environment & Sustainability)
| UWO | http://geography.uwo.ca/geograds/students/rollinsY/index.html
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