[Geogwaste] Nudging this list!

[David Evans]

Dear Freyja, all

Many thanks for this  -great idea to start using this list again. And thanks indeed for your paper

By return, here is a shameless act of self-promotions from me. Two books on food waste (one an edited collection, the other a monograph).

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118394313.html

http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/food-waste-9780857852342/

all the best

david

From: geogwaste-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu [mailto:geogwaste-bounces at listserv.ohio.edu] On Behalf Of Freyja Knapp
Sent: 03 June 2016 18:02
To: geographers of waste
Subject: [Geogwaste] Nudging this list!

Hello geographers of waste -

It's been a long time since someone posted here and in an act of shameless self-promotion, I am reviving it temporarily to share a new publication just out in Environment and Planning A (should you wish to read and you do not have access to the journal, I can send a pdf).

I hope all are well and I would love to see what other's have been publishing too!  The Discard Studies blog has been a great source of new pubs, but I'm sure there are others.  Please feel free to share back.

Best,

Freyja

·         Freyja L Knapp
The birth of the flexible mine: Changing geographies of mining and the e-waste commodity frontier Environment and Planning A 0308518X16652398, first published on May 28, 2016 as doi:10.1177/0308518X16652398
Abstract

Mining companies, in recent decades, have been changing how they source and refine ores by seeking metal-bearing wastes to be smelted alongside “traditional” mining concentrates. I propose the term “flexible mine” to describe this expansion of ore supply chains, and I demonstrate how it operates through multiple registers of flexibility: spatial, temporal, and interpretational. The flexible mine is both a “widening” and a “deepening” commodity frontier for the mining industry promising a disarticulation from geophysical processes and, by extension, mining country geopolitics. The organizational and technical changes associated with mining above-ground ores seem to suggest a new phenomenon, wholly different than traditional mining and refining. Instead, however, the mining of waste streams blurs the boundaries between extraction, production, manufacturing, consumption, and disposal. Further, the flexible mine challenges the distinction between urban and non, arguing against relying on too-familiar binaries in geographic scholarship. I highlight how these registers of flexibility address three problems in below-ground mining (geospatial fixity, resource scarcity, and environmental effects) and also create new governance challenges in regulating extractive industries.


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Freyja Knapp, MLA
Designated Emphases, Science and Technology Studies<http://cstms.berkeley.edu> & Global Metropolitan Studies<http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu>
Fellow, Berkeley Connect<http://www.berkeleyconnect.berkeley.edu/departments/espm>
PhD Candidate, Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
University of California, Berkeley
email: freyja (at) berkeley (dot) edu
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