The Dirt
Discard studies is an emerging field that takes waste and wasting as its topic of study. To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in the field. Here is The Dirt for December 2018.
Recent Discard Studies Posts
- Hope and Mourning in the Anthropocene
- Science with Heart
- Nuclear State, Nuclear Waste
- Waste Colonialism
Publications (articles & books)
- Cashin, J. (2018). War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War. Cambridge University Press.
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Econie, Alexis, and Michael L. Dougherty. (2018) Contingent Work in the US Recycling Industry: Permatemps and Precarious Green Jobs. Geoforum, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.11.016.
- Garrisi, D. (2018). Christmas 1864: death from bedsores in a workhouse-the politics of wound care, the media and social reform in Victorian London. Public Understanding of Science, 0963662518813461.
- Liebman, Adam (2018). No more of your junk, The New Internationalist, Issue 516, Nov/Dec.
- Liebman, Adam (2018). Plastic China: Sorting Plastic, Sorting People, Toxic News, Nov 1.
- Lombardo, N., & Wideman, T. J. (2018). Recentering land use: value and exclusion in relationships of property and planning. City, 1-11.
- Moats, D. (2018). Following the Fukushima Disaster on (and against) Wikipedia: A Methodological Note about STS Research and Online Platforms. Science Technology & Human Values, DOI: 10.1177/0162243918815234.
- Moore, S. A., Rosenfeld, H., & Rafi Arefin, M. (2018). Generating anxiety, short-circuiting desire: Battery waste and the capitalist phantasy. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 0263775818777249.
- Müller, S. (2018). The Life of Waste. Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions, 3.
- Panikkar, B. & J. Tollefson. (2018) Land as material, knowledge and relationships: Resource extraction and subsistence imaginaries in Bristol Bay, Alaska, Social Studies of Science, DOI: 10.1177/0306312718803453
- Plantin, Jean-Christophe. (2018). Data Cleaners for Pristine Datasets: Visibility and Invisibility of Data Processors in Social Science. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 0162243918781268.
- Rand, Lisa Ruth. (2018). Falling Cosmos: Nuclear Reentry and the Environmental History of Earth Orbit. Environmental History.
- Siniawer, E. M. (2018). Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan. Cornell University Press.
- Souchen, A. (2018). The Dark Side of Disarmament: Ocean Pollution, Peace, and the World Wars. Archive History.
- Ureta, S., & Flores, P. (2018). Don’t wake up the dragon! Monstrous geontologies in a mining waste impoundment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 0263775818780373.
- Weber, G., Cabras, I., Calaf-Forn, M., Puig-Ventosa, I., & D’Alisa, G. (2019). Promoting Waste Degrowth and Environmental Justice at a Local Level: The Case of Unit-Pricing Schemes in Spain. Ecological Economics, 156, 306-317.
- Yamin-Pasternak, S., Kliskey, A., Alessa, L., Pasternak, I., Schweitzer, P., Beauchamp, G. K., … & Ellix Katz, S. (2014). The rotten renaissance in the Bering Strait: Loving, loathing, and washing the smell of foods with a (re) acquired taste. Current Anthropology, 55(5), 000-000.
- Zani, L. (2018). Bomb Ecologies, Environmental Humanities, 10(2), 528-531.
- Zuez, David. (2018). Digital afterlife:(Eco) civilizational politics of the site and the sight of e‐waste in China. Anthropology Today, 34(6), 11-15.
Special Issues & Collections
- The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet. (2018) by N. Burton & H. Goldring. Expanded edition edited by P. McCurdy. The Digital Press at University of North Dakota.
- Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice. (2018). Edited by J. Dhillon. Environment and Society, 9.
Calls for Papers/Proposals
- Art in Environmental Activism, Special Issue The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada, Deadline for Paper Abstracts: 7 January 2019
- Gdo Akiiminaan Ganawendandaan (Taking Care of Our Land) Symposium, call for papers and presentations, 6-9 May 2019 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Deadline for Abstracts: 18 January 2019.
- Mineral Transformation and Resource Extraction: Pasts, Presents and Futures, Special Issue Transformations: Journal of Media, Culture & Technology. Deadline for Paper Abstracts: 10 February 2019.
- Open Call for papers, Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE). February 21 – 23, 2019, University of Kentucky. Deadline: January 5, 2019.
- Pesticide Politics in Africa, Conference. 29-31 May 2019, Tropical Pesticide Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania. Deadline for proposals: 5 January 2019.
- ‘These are a few of my favourite things’: Exploring the Value of Material Culture in the Everyday, 1 March 2019 at the University of Sheffield, UK. Deadline for abstract submission: 7 January 2019.
Call for papers in special sessions at Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference
- Approaching Methods Together: Experiments with Public Health Problems, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- Assembling Caring Geographies: How do Regions Care?, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- Dancing The Anthropocene – Envisioning Rituals, Bodies, Environments And Political Situatedness Through The Lens Of Dance, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- Diagnosing Death: Critical STS Perspectives, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- How Collections End: Objects, Meaning and Loss in Laboratories and Museums, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- Innovating Air Pollution Governance: Collaborations, Interruptions, and Regenerations, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- Opening up Containment: Spaces, Trajectories, and Forms of Life, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- Remediating Remediation: Imagining Alternatives for Assessing and Redressing Environmental Harm, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- Smart or Toxic Cities?: Locating Waste in the Digital Age, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- The Body as Environmental Sensor, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- Toxic Subjects: Historical, Legal, Occupational, and Medical Perspectives, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- Queering Stigma, Embodied Innovations, Spoiled Identities, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- Residues: Rethinking Chemical Environments, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- STS Underground: Investigating the Technoscientific Worlds of Mining and Subterranean Extraction, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
- The Matter of Photography: Decay, Conservation, Afterlives, Paper Session, 4S Annual Meeting, 4-7 September 2019. New Orleans, Louisiana. Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February 2019.
Positions and Opportunities
- Assistant/ Associate Professor in Diversity and Inclusion in Natural Resources, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
- Associate Professor, Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
- Social scientist in Nuclear Waste Governance, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.
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