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 January 2019.
Recent Discard Studies Posts
Publications (articles & books)
- Altman, R. (2019). Time Bombing the Future. Aeon. January 2.
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Beckett, C., & Keeling, A. (2018). Rethinking remediation: mine reclamation, environmental justice, and relations of care. Local Environment, 1-15.
- Eldridge, E. R. (2018). Administrating Violence through Coal Ash Policies and Practices. Conflict and Society, 4(1), 99-115.
- Elliott, J. & Frickel, S. (2018) What lies beneath: To manage toxic contamination in cities, study their industrial histories. The Conversation.
- Haugen, H. (2019) The social production of container space. Environment and Planning D. DOI: 10.1177/0263775818822834
- Kornberg, D. (2019). Garbage as fuel: pursuing incineration to counter stigma in postcolonial urban India. Local Environment, 24(1), 1-17.
- Lee, R., & Mykitiuk, R. (2018). Surviving difference: Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, intergenerational justice and the future of human reproduction. Feminist Theory, DOI: 1464700118764080.
- Liboiron, M. (2018). How Plastic Is a Function of Colonialism. Teen Vogue. December 21.
- O’Neill, K. (2018). Linking wastes and climate change: Bandwagoning, contention, and global governance. WIREs Climate Change. doi: 10.1002/wcc.568
- Quark, A. (2019). Outsourcing regulatory decision-making: “International” epistemic communities, transnational firms, and pesticide residue standards in India. Science, Technology & Human Values, 44(1), 3-28.
- Souchen, A. (2018). Something fishy? Underwater munitions and unexplained die offs in marine environments. International Journal of Maritime History, 30(2), 355-361.
- Souchen, A. (2017). “Under Fathoms of Salt Water:” Canada’s Ammunition Dumping Program, 1944-1947. Canadian Military History, 26(2), 3.
- Thorsheim, P. (2015). Waste into Weapons: Recycling in Britain During the Second World War. Cambridge University Press.
Articles from Science for the People back archive (Recently digitized)
- A.S. (1971). Food Additives or 1 + 1 + 1…Makes Money. Science for the People, 3(4), 20-24.
- B.F. & C.M. (1971) Ethnic Weapons. Science for the People, 3(5), 4-5 & 19-21.
- Editorial Collective (1973). Environmental Colonialism. Science for the People 5(4), 14-16.
- Editorial Collective (1973). Runaway Electronics. Science for the People, 5(1), 18-20.
- M.S. (1972). Science, Scientists, and the Third World. Science for the People, 4(3), 3-7.
- J.F. (1972). The US Ethical Drug Industry. Science for the People 4(4), 12-14 & 28-33.
- J.S. (1972). Cancer: A Social & Political Problem. Science for the People, 4(4), 26-28.
- P.K. (1973). Stilbestrol: Cancer-inducing Estrogen. Science for the People, 5(1), 14-16.
Special Issues & Collections
- Environmental Justice and Epistemic Violence (2019). Local Environment. Edited by S. Vermeylen
- Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War. Routledge. Edited by N.A.J. Taylor and R. Jacobs.
Calls for Proposals
- The Anthropocene, Special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Deadline for Paper Abstracts: 31 March 2019.
- Entangled Natures, Call for papers, 14-17 February 2019, New Delhi, India. Deadline for presentation abstracts: 15 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 Student Proposals, STS Global 2019, 29-30 March 2019 in Washington, DC. Deadline for Paper Abstracts: Extended to 31 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 Professor, T2 Canada Research Chair, Political Ecology, University of Victoria, BC
- Assistant Professor of Health Studies in the Middle East and North Africa, University of Arizona
- Assistant Professor, Social and Cultural Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Director, School of Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
- Early-Career Research Fellowship, Gulf Research Program, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- Lecturer, Sustainability and Environmental Justice, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Research Associate/Staff Scientist, Climate and Energy Policy, Stockholm Environmental Institute
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Sociology and Science and Technology Studies, Drexel University
- Science Policy Fellowship, Gulf Research Program, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- Tenure Track Lecturer in Critical Thinking and Evidence-Based Reasoning for the Environment, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Master’s students, Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London
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