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Journals & Magazines

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Environmental Science & Technology

Found Magazine: Lost and Found Culture

International Journal of Sustainable Engineering

Journal of Historical Geography

Journal of Material Culture

Orion Magazine

The Public Historian

Social Societies and Waste Network (Sociétés Urbaines et Déchets)

Articles

Ard,Patricia. (2005). “Garbage in the Garden State: A Trash Museum Confronts New Jersey’s Image.” The Public Historian, 27(3): 57-66.

Barnes, D. K. A., F. Galgani, et al. (2009). “Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364(1526).

Bauman, Zygmunt. (2001). “Excess: An Obituary.” Parallax 7(1): 85-91.

Biehler, Dawn. (2010). “Flies, manure, and window screens: medical entomology and environmental reform in early-twentieth-century US cities.” Journal of Historical Geography, 36(1): 68-78.

Birgelen, M., J. Semeijin, M. Keicher. (2009). “Packaging and Proenvironmental Consumption Behavior: Investigating Purchase and Disposal Decisions for Beverages.” Environment and Behavior 41(1): 125-146.

Bissell, David. (2009). “Inconsequential Materialities: The Movements of Lost Effects.” Space and Culture, 12(1): 95-115.

Björkén-Nyberg, Celia. (2011). “Roll Out Beethoven: The player piano and musical waste in Edwardian England.” European Journal of English Studies 15(1): 7-17.

Bloomfield, Brian P. and Theo Vurdubakis. (2005). “The secret of Yucca Mountain: reflections on an object in extremis.” Environment and Planning D, 23: 735 – 756.

Boustani, A., et al. (2011). “Investigation of the waste-removal chain through pervasive computing,” IBM Journal of Research and Development 55(1.2):1-11.

Breivik, Knut, et al. (2011). “Are Reductions in Industrial Organic Contaminants Emissions in Rich Countries Achieved Partly by Export of Toxic Wastes?” Environ. Sci. Technol., 45(21): 9154–9160.

Brekhus, Wayne. (1998). “A Sociology of the Unmarked: Redirecting Our Focus.” Sociological Theory 16(1): 34-51.

Bridge, Gavin. (2009). “Material Worlds: Natural Resources, Resource Geography, and the Material Economy.” Geography Compass 3(3):1217-44.

Broto, V. C. (2013). “Symbolic Violence and the Politics of Environmental Pollution Science: The Case of Coal Ash Pollution in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” Antipode, 45: 621–640.

Bryant, R. L., & Goodman, M. K. (2004) “Consuming narratives: The political ecology of ‘alternative’ consumption.”Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29(3), 344-366.

Calvino, Italo. (1972). Cities & the Sky 2 and Continuous Cities I in Invisible Cities. New York: Harcourt.

Chun, A. (2002). ‘Flushing into the Future: The Supermodern Japanese Toilet in a Changing Domestic Culture’, Postcolonial Studies 5(2): 153-70.

Clapp, J. (2002). “The Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy.” Confronting Consumption. T. Princen, M. Maniates and K. Conca. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press: 155-176.

Cohen, M. J., Brown, H.S., Vergragt, P.J. (2010). “Individual consumption and systemic societal transformation: introduction to the special issue.” Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 6(2).

Colten, Craig. (1994). “Chicago’s waste lands: refuse disposal and urban growth, 1840-1990.” Journal of Historical Geography, 20(2):124-142.

Cooper. T. (2005). “Slower consumption: reflections on product lifespan and the throw away society.” Journal of Industrial Ecology, 9 (1-2): 51-67

Coverly, E. d., P. McDonagh, et al. (2008). “Hidden Mountain: The Social Avoidance of Waste.” Journal of Macromarketing 28(3): 14.

Crang, Mike. (2010). “The death of great ships: photography, politics, and waste in the global imaginary.” Environment and Planning A, 42: 1084 – 1102.

Crang, M., Hughes, A., Gregson, N., Norris, L. and Ahamed, F. (2013). “Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 38: 12–24.

Crawshaw, Jane Stevens. (2011). “The Beasts of Burial: Pizzigamorti and Public Health for the Plague in Early Modern Venice.” Soc Hist Med 24(3): 570-587.

Crewe, Louise. (2011). “Life itemised: lists, loss, unexpected significance, and the enduring geographies of discard.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29(1):27-46.

Davies, Anna R. (2011). “Geography and the matter of waste mobilities.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers: 36(4): 1475-5661.

DeSilvey, Caitlin. (2006). “Observed Decay: Telling Stories with Mutable Things.” Journal of Material Culture, 11(3): 318-338

Dillon, L. (2013). “Race, Waste, and Space: Brownfield Redevelopment and Environmental Justice at the Hunters Point Shipyard.” Antipode. doi: 10.1111/anti.12009

Douny, Laurence. (2007). “The Materiality of Domestic Waste: The Recycled Cosmology of the Dogon of Mali.” Journal of Material Culture, 2(3): 309-331.

DuPuis, E.M. (2000). “Not in my body: rBGH and the rise of organic milk.” Agriculture and Human Values, 17(3): 285–295.

Dutton, M., S. Seth and L. Gandhi. (2002). ‘Plumbing the Depths: Toilets, Transparency and Modernity’, Postcolonial Studies 5(2): 137-42.

Edensor, Tim. (2005). “Waste Matter – The Debris of Industrial Ruins and the Disordering of the Material World.“ Journal of Material Culture, 10(3): 311-332.

Edensor, Tim. (2005). “The Ghosts of Industrial Ruins.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23(6):829-49.

Evans, D. (2012). “Binning, gifting and recovery: the conduits of disposal in household food consumption“ Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 30(6) 1123 – 1137.

Gabrys, Jennifer. (2009). “Sink: the dirt of systems.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 27: 666-681.

Garcier, Romain. (2010). “The placing of matter: industrial water pollution and the construction of social order in nineteenth-century France.”  Journal of Historical Geography,  36(2):132-142.

Ghertner, D. A. (2012). “Nuisance Talk and the Propriety of Property: Middle Class Discourses of a Slum-Free Delhi.” Antipode 44: 1161–1187.

Gidwani, V. and R. N. Reddy (2011). “The Afterlives of “Waste”: Notes from India for a Minor History of Capitalist Surplus.” Antipode 43(5): 1625-1658.

Gille, Zsuzsa. (2010). “Actor networks, modes of production, and waste regimes: reassembling the macro-social.” Environment and Planning A, 42: 1049 – 1064.

Goddard, Nicholas. (1996). ““A mine of wealth”? The Victorians and the agricultural value of sewage.” Journal of Historical Geography, 22(3): 274-290.

Goldstein, J. (2013). “Terra Economica: Waste and the Production of Enclosed Nature.” Antipode, 45: 357–375

Gram-Hanssen, K. (2007). “Teenage consumption of cleanliness: how to make it sustainable?” Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. 3(2), 15-23.

Greenpeace. (2006). “Plastic Debris in the World’s Oceans.” Defending Our Oceans, 44.

Gregson, Nicky, Alan Metcalfe and Louise Crewe. (2007). ” Identity, mobility, and the throwaway society.” Environment and Planning D 25: 682 – 700.

Hand, M., Shove, E., & Southerton, D. (2005). “Explaining Showering: a Discussion of the Material, Conventional, and Temporal Dimensions of Practice.” Sociological Research Online, 10(2).

Hanson, James. (1980). “A Proposed Paradigm for Consumer Product Disposition Processes.” Journal of Consumer Affairs, 14(1): 49.

Harvey, D. (1998). “The body as accumulation strategy.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 16, 401-421.

Hawkins, Gay. (2001). “Plastic Bags: Living with Rubbish.” International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(1): 5-23.

Hawkins, G. (2004) ‘Shit in Public’, Australian Humanities Review 31-2.

Herod, Andrew and Luis L. M. Aguiar. (2006). “Section II Introduction: Ethnographies of the cleaning body.” Antipode 38(3): 530-533.

Herod, Andrew and Luis L. M. Aguiar. (2006). “Section III Introduction: Cleaners’ agency.” Antipode 38(3): 603-607. [Published simultaneously in Luis L. M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod (eds.), The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy, pp. 172-176. Basil Blackwell: Oxford.]

Hetherington Kevin. (2004). “Secondhandedness: consumption, disposal, and absent presence” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 22(1): 157 – 173.

Hockey, Jenny, Trish Green, Andy Clayden, and Mark Powell. (2012). “Landscapes of the dead? Natural burial and the materialization of absence,” Journal of Material Culture 17: 115-132

Houston, D. (2013). “Environmental Justice Storytelling: Angels and Isotopes at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.” Antipode, 45: 417–435.

Inglis, D. (2002) “Dirt and Denigration: The Faecal Imagery and Rhetorics of Abuse,” Postcolonial Studies 5(2): 207-21.

Jin, Huimin. (2011). “Rubbish as a Consequence of the Ever More Refined Industrialization.” Theory, Culture & Society 28(7-8): 354-357.

Jun’icherō, T. (2002). ‘One Thing and Another on the Privy’, Postcolonial Studies 5(2): 147-51.

Kirsch, S. & Mitchell, D. (2004). “The Nature of Things: Dead Labor, Nonhuman Actors, and the Persistence of Marxism,” Antipode 36, 681-699.

Krupa, Shiloh R. (2011). “Alien still life: distilling the toxic logics of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.” Environment and Planning D  29: 268 – 290.

Larson, L. (1969). “Nineteenth-Century Street Sanitation: A Study of Filth and Frustration.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History 52(3): 9.

Lepawsky, Josh, and Chris McNabb. (2010). “Mapping Flows of Electronic Waste.” The Canadian Geographer54(2): 177-195.

Lepawsky, Josh and Mostaem Billah. (2011). “Making Chains that (Un)Make Things: Waste-Value Relations and the Bangladeshi Rubbish Electronics Industry.” Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 93(20: 121-139.

Lepawsky, Josh and Mather, C. (2011). “From Beginnings and Endings to Boundaries and Edges: rethinking circulation and exchange through electronic waste”. Area 43 (3): 242-249.

Liboiron, Max. (2010) “Recycling as a Crisis of Meaning.” eTopia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 4.

Liboiron, Max. (2012). “Tactics of Waste, Dirt and Discard in the Occupy Movement.” Social Movement Studies 11(3-4): 393-401.

Legator, M. S. and S. F. Strawn (1993). “Public health policies regarding hazardous waste sites and cigarette smoking: an argument by analogy.” Environ Health Perspect 101(1).

Lucas, G. (2002). “Disposability and Dispossession in the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Material Culture 7(5): 18.

Maycroft, Neil. (2009). “Not Moving Things Along: Hoarding, Clutter, and Other Ambiguous Matter.” The Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Special Issue on ‘Unpacking Disposal,’ 8(5).

Mazón, Pablo Rey. (2013). “Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste.” Reclaim and Remake International Symposium, Washington, DC. 11-13 April.

McCarthy, J. (2002). “First World political ecology: lessons from the Wise Use movement.” Environment and Planning A. 34, 1281-1302.

McFarlane, Wallace Scot.  (2012). “Defining a Nuisance: Pollution, Science, and Environmental Politics on Maine’s Androscoggin River.” Environmental History 17(2): 307-335

McLean, S. (2011). “BLACK GOO: Forceful Encounters with Matter in Europe’s Muddy Margins.” Cultural Anthropology 26(4): 589-619.

Melosi, Martin. (2002). “The Fresno Sanitary Landfill as a National Historic Landmark.” American Society for Environmental History News 13(2): Summer, p1+.

Min’an, Wang. (2011). “On Rubbish,” Theory, Culture & Society 28(7-8): 340-353.

Morgan, M. ( 2002). ‘The Plumbing of Modern Life’, Postcolonial Studies 5(2): 171-95.

Moore, L.J. (2007). “Incongruent Bodies: Teaching While Leaking.” Feminist Teacher
17(2): 95-106.

Moore, Sarah A. (2012). “Garbage matters: Concepts in new geographies of waste.” Progress in Human Geography 36: 780-799.

O’Brien, M. (1999). “Rubbish Values: Reflections on the Political Economy of Waste.” Science as Culture 8(3): 28.

O’Brien, M. (1999). “Rubbish-Power: Towards a Sociology of the Rubbish Society.” Consuming Cultures: Power and Resistance. J. Hearn and S. Roseneil. Basingstoke New York, Macmillan ;St. Martin’s Press: 262-277.

Offenhuber, D., et al. (2011). “Urban Digestive Systems- Trash Track.” Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space. MIT Press: 90-109.

Osborne, T. (1996) ‘Security and Vitality: Drains, Liberalism and Power in the Nineteenth Century’, pp. 99-122 in A. Barry, T. Osborne and N. Rose (eds) Foucault and Political Reason. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Parlati, M. (2011). “Beyond Inchoate Debris: Dust in contemporary culture.” European Journal of English  Studies 15(1):73-84.

Pickering, Lucy. (2010). “Toilets, Bodies, Selves: Enacting Composting as Counterculture in Hawai’i.” Body Society 16(4): 33-55.

Pink, S. ( 2005)‘Dirty Laundry: Everyday Practice, Sensory Engagement and the Constitution of Identity’, Social Anthropology 13(3): 275-90.

Rashid, S.F. & Michaud, S. (2000). “Female Adolescents and Their Sexuality: Notions of Honour, Shame, Purity and Pollution during the Floods.” Disasters. 24(1): 54-70.

Ratcliffe, Barrie M. 1992. “Perceptions and Realities of the Urban Margin: The Rag Pickers of Paris in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.” Canadian Journal of History, 27(2):197-233.

Rathje, William. (1984).”The Garbàge Decade.” American Behavioral Scientist 28(1):2-29.

Reno, Joshua. (2011). “Managing the Experience of Evidence: England’s Experimental Waste Technologies and their Immodest Witnesses.” Science, Technology and Human Values, 36(6): 842-863.

Reno, Joshua. (2009). “Your Trash is Someone’s Treasure: The Politics of Value at a Michigan Landfill.” Journal of Material Culture 14(1): 29-46.

Rome, Adam W. (1996). “Coming to Terms with Pollution: The Language of Environmental Reform, 1865-1915.” Environmental History, 1(3): 6-23.

Romanillos, J. L. (2011). “Geography, death, and finitude.” Environment and Planning A 43(11): 2533 – 2553.

Salisbury, Roderick B. (2012). “Engaging with soil, past and present,” Journal of Material Culture  17: 23-41.

Scheinberg, Anne and Arthur P J Mol. (2010). “Multiple modernities: transitional Bulgaria and the ecological modernisation of solid waste management.” Environment and Planning C  28: 18 – 36.

Schneekloth, Lynda H. (2007). “Unruly and Robust: An Abandoned Industrial River” in Franck and Stevens, eds., Loose Space. New York and London: Routledge.

Scot MacFarlane, Wallance. (2012). “Defining a Nuisance: Pollution, Science, and Environmental Politics on Maine’s Androscoggin River.” Environmental History 17(20: 307-335.

Shail, A. (2007). “‘Although a Woman’s Article’: Menstruant Economics and Creative Waste.” Body & Society 13(4): 77-96.

Shove, E. (2003). “Converging Conventions of Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience.” Journal of Consumer Policy 26: 395-418.

Swyngedouw, E., Kaika, M., & Castro, E. (2002). “Urban Water: A Political-Ecology Perspective.” Built Environment, 28(2).

Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia. (2011). “In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material Afterlife in Post-Oslo Palestine.” Jerusalem Quarterly 48: 54-77.

Swyngedouw, E. (1999). “Modernity and hybridity: nature, regeneracionismo, and the production of the Spanish waterscape, 1890-1930.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 89(3), 443-365.

Simmel, Georg. (1959). “The Ruin.” In Georg Simmel, 1858-1918. A Collection of Essays, with Translations and a Bibliography. Ohio State University Press, 1959, 259-265.

Stegner, W. (1959). The Town Dump. The Atlantic Monthly, October; p78-80.

Sullivan, Robert. (1998). Valley of the Garbage Hills. From Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City. New York: Scribner.

Thompson, R. C., C. J. Moore, et al. (2009). “Plastics, the environment and human health: current consensus and future trends.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364(1526 ).

Ukeles, M. L. (2002). “Leftovers: It’s About Time for Fresh Kills.” Cabinet 6.

Urban, Michael. (2005). “An uninhabited waste: transforming the Grand Prairie in nineteenth century Illinois, USA.”Journal of Historical Geography, 31(4): 647-665.

Van der Geest, S. (1998). ‘Akan Shit: Getting Rid of Dirt in Ghana,’ Anthropology Today 14: 8-12.

Venn, C. (2006). “Rubbish, the Remmant, Etcetera.” Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3):44.

Yates, M. (2011). “The Human-As-Waste, the Labor Theory of Value and Disposability in Contemporary Capitalism.” Antipode 43(5): 1679-1695.

Zanisnik, Bryan. (2012). “Beyond Passaic: Contamination, security threats, hobo encampments. A Meadowlands photo essay.” Triple Canopy 15.