How do objects that are worth little to nothing become valuable? Who is behind the creation of value, and which types of people find value and comfort in transi
How do objects that are worth little to nothing become valuable? Who is behind the creation of value, and which types of people find value and comfort in transi
This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material ma
Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life_from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has af
An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field t