The Temporalities of Waste: Out of Sight, Out of Time

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on contributors
Foreword
	References
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Out of joint—the time of waste
	The complex temporalities of waste
	Materiality and ethics
	Outline
		Speed and slowness
		Bureaucratic time
		Disposability and persistence
		Longue durée and intergenerational time
		Collision and multiplicity
		Revivals/return
	References
Part I: Speed and slowness
	Chapter 1: Open crowd: Just-in-time food rescue
		Introduction
		Expiration—matter out of time
		Temporal ontology of food waste
		Food rescue: tackling temporal enclosures
		Breadline
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 2: Fridges and food waste: An ethnography of freshness
		Fridges, freshness and food waste
		Doing fridge research with Pacific Islanders
		Rhythms, fridges and shared households in Port Moresby, PNG
		Rhythms, fridges and private households migrating to Australia
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Chip, body, earth: Toxic temporalities of Intel processor production
		I Chip
		II Body
		III Earth
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part II: Bureaucratic time
	Chapter 4: Biopolitical temporalities of waste and the municipal collection schedule in the United States
		House offal and municipal collection: temporal, technical and human elements
		Enacting the temporal grid of compliance for municipal waste collection
		Producing wasted spaces: areas never visited and areas of disposal
		Conclusion: toward new temporalities of waste
		Note
		References
	Chapter 5: Housing waste in remote Indigenous Australia
		Repair, waste, time
		Legal protections for habitable housing
		Policy, classification, waste
		References
	Chapter 6: The imaginaries of Beirut’s “invisible” solid waste: Exploring walls as temporal pauses amidst the Beirut garbage crisis
		Introduction
		The background
		Temporary tactics
		The wall as temporal pause
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Note
		References
		Online newspaper articles
Part III: Disposability and persistence
	Chapter 7: “All of them had been forgotten”: Waste as literary symbol in the Arab world
		Exception in the permanently temporary refugee camp
		(Un)grievable lives and stalled journeys
		Slow violence and the accumulating waste of war
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Lingering matter: Materialities, temporalities and waste in clothes
		Introduction
		Pulling the thread: tracing outwards from the temporary assemblages of clothing
		Component materials that endure: temporal vignettes of unruly3 clothing assemblages
		Concluding thoughts
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9: The landfill paradox: Reflections on the temporalities of waste
		The rhythm of waste: dumping narratives
		Arriving at the landfill: locked up waste
		The structure
		Caring about leaks: landfill futures
		Conclusion
		References
Part IV: Longue durée and intergenerational time
	Chapter 10: The waste of time
		Introduction
		Waste as an end and a beginning
		Digging up dirt
		The past over the present
		Nature over culture
		The research at Marco Gonzalez
		Impact
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 11: Crip Time and the toxic body: Water, waste and the autobiographical self
		Introduction: the Crip Time of climate change
		Part I: Black(stone) River
		Part II: Great Green(algae) Lake(s)
		Part III: Red(scare) ground water
		Conclusion—Crip Time, slow violence and toxic water
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 12: Wasting seas: Oceanic time and temporalities1
		Timelines
		Interwoven time
		Mercurial time
		Folded geo-temporalities
		Notes
		References
Part V: Collisions and multiplicity
	Chapter 13: Today’s waste is tomorrow’s future: On the temporalities of two post nuclear sites1
		Writing into the future
		Chernobyl: the never-ending richness of catastrophe
		The Hanford Nuclear Reservation: the toxic cycle of life
		The end is far away
		Note
		References
	Chapter 14: Toxic transmogrification: Rare Earthenware as junk art
		Trash and e-waste art
		Waste, temporality and the power of objects
		The ethical dimensions of waste
		Note
		References
	Chapter 15: Crunch time: Temporalities of scrap metal collection
		Introduction
		Literature review
		Note on method
		Analysis
		Conclusion
		References
Part VI: Revivals and returns
	Chapter 16: New temporalities of everyday life in Australian suburbia: Cultural and material economies of hard rubbish reuse
		Introduction
		Temporal norms of convenience and disposability
		The emergence of new temporalities
		Changing times: hard rubbish households
		Conclusion: a temporal politics
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 17: Temporal cycles of waste management in Southern African Indigenous societies
		Introduction
		Indigenous waste management practices
		From waste to food: traditional food production systems
		Going back to go forward towards sustainability: relearning the traditional practices of urban organic waste recycling and food gardening
		Application of Indigenous temporal cycles of waste in the formal school curriculum
		Case 1: Urban organic waste recycling: uncovering the heritage foundations of organic waste management in Makhanda
		Case 2: A colonial history of exclusion as a foundation for a new temporality of waste management
		Conclusion
		References
	Index