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		<title>Article alert- Landscapes of the dead? Natural burial and the materialization of absence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 12:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Liboiron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presence/absence, boundaries/excess, marked/unmarked and natural/postnatural are some of the comparative analytical frames discard studies frequently use. A new article in the Journal of Material Culture on natural burial, &#8220;Landscapes of the dead? Natural burial and the materialization of absence,&#8221; uses these frames in investigate burial practices. Abstract This article questions the emphasis on presence within &#8230; <a href="http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/article-alert-landscapes-of-the-dead-natural-burial-and-the-materialization-of-absence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discardstudies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10243283&#038;post=2254&#038;subd=discardstudies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OWS vs. City of New York: Leveraging Discard Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 02:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Liboiron</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street, and specifically representatives of the People&#8217;s Library, are suing New York City&#8217;s Mayor Bloomberg, its police commissioner Ray Kelly, the Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty, and other City officials in the seizure and discard of 2,798 books during the raid on Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. If you are not familiar with &#8230; <a href="http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/ows-vs-city-of-new-york-leveraging-discard-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discardstudies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10243283&#038;post=2243&#038;subd=discardstudies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Article Alert- Terra Economica: Waste and the Production of Enclosed Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Liboiron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terra Economica: Waste and the Production of Enclosed Nature Jesse Goldstein Antipode Abstract:  This essay provides an analysis of the “dirty” history and geography of enclosure, as both an instance of primitive accumulation and a production of nature. Specifically, I reconsider the English enclosures as a struggle over the land-use designation of “waste”. Whereas both &#8230; <a href="http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/article-alert-terra-economica-waste-and-the-production-of-enclosed-nature/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discardstudies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10243283&#038;post=2238&#038;subd=discardstudies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Article Alert: Justice, community knowledge, and waste facility siting in Taiwan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 20:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Liboiron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Justice, community knowledge, and waste facility siting in Taiwan&#8220; by Mei-Fang Fan, Associate Professor, Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang-Ming University Public Understanding of Science 2012;21 418-431 Abstract: This article examines justice in the context of a controversial industrial waste facility siting in a Hakka (a minority ethnic group) town in Taiwan. It &#8230; <a href="http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/article-alert-justice-community-knowledge-and-waste-facility-siting-in-taiwan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discardstudies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10243283&#038;post=2231&#038;subd=discardstudies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plums for Trash and the Object Ethnography Project: Praxis-Based Value Networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Liboiron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artist Christina Freeman began her MFA thesis project, Plums for Trash, by taking a suitcase full of odds and ends she didn&#8217;t need from New York City to outdoor markets throughout Sofia, Bulgaria. She traded her objects in these markets, often for objects that had been pulled out of the waste stream. She made this &#8230; <a href="http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/plums-for-trash-and-the-object-ethnography-project-praxis-based-value-networks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discardstudies.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10243283&#038;post=2103&#038;subd=discardstudies&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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