Discard studies is an emerging field that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and garbage. 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 November 2019.

Recent Discard Studies Posts

• Myths of the Circular Economy by Gay Hawkins, David Boarder Giles, & Catherine Phillips with Alex Zahara
• Placing discard studies in Australia by Catherine Phillips, David Boarder Giles, & Gay Hawkins with Alex Zahara
• The power (& disempowerment) of Menstrual Hygiene Management by Shobita Parthasarathy

Publications (articles & books)

Note: If an article is behind a paywall, email the author. They are almost always authorized by copyright to distribute their own work.

• Ahmann, Chloe. (2019). Waste to energy: Garbage prospects and subjunctive politics in late‐industrial Baltimore. American Ethnologist, 46(3), 328-342.
• Barandiaran, Javiera (2019). Documenting rubble to shift baselines: Environmental assessments and damaged glaciers in Chile. Environment and Planning E. DOI: 10.1177/2514848619873317.
• Chailleux, Sébastien. (2019). Making the subsurface political: How enhanced oil recovery techniques reshaped the energy transition. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2399654419884077.
• Chlala, Robert. (2019). Misfit medicine and queer geographies: The diverse economy and politics of cannabis in carceral Los Angeles. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2399654419884074.
• Duncan, Elizabeth. (2019). Industrial Signatures: Sydney’s Gasworks. Infrastructural Inequalities 1.
• Eddison-Cogan, Karma., & Allen, Fiona. (2019). Devil’s Dust on Nauru: Disposal and its Futures. Infrastructural Inequalities 1.
• Fabian, Nele, Tak Lou, Loretta leng. (2019). The Struggle for Sustainable Waste Management in Hong Kong: 1950s–2010s. Worldwide Waste 2(1): 10.
• Greco, Angelica., & Yamamoto, Daisaku. (2019). Geographical political economy of nuclear power plant closures. Geoforum, 106, 234-243.
• Neale, Timothy., & Macdonald, Jennifer Mairi (2019). Permits to burn: weeds, slow violence, and the extractive future of northern Australia. Australian Geographer, 1-17.
• Shapiro, Nicholas (2019). Manufacturing home. Journal for Anthropology of North America, 22(2), 121-124.
• Simmons, Kristen. (2019). Expanse. Journal for Anthropology of North America, 22(2), 103-105.
• Spackman, Christy. (2019). Just noticeable: Erasing place in municipal water treatment in the US during the interwar period. Journal of Historical Geography. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2019.10.014
• Van Bemmel, Alexis & Parizeau, Kate. (2019). Is it food or is it waste? The materiality and relational agency of food waste across the value chain. Journal of Cultural Economy DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2019.1684339
• Vorbrugg, Alexander. (2019). Ethnographies of slow violence: Epistemological alliances in fieldwork and narrating ruins. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2399654419881660.