Discard Studies is a young field of research 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 August 2021.

Recent Discard Studies Posts

• Copyright on the Farm by MC Forelle
• Reading Lists: Residential Schools
• Miss Tampon Liberty by Camilla Mørk Røstvik
• Reading Lists: Waste Colonialism and Palestine
• A Moral Politics of Blame by Sneha Sharma
• Waste and Recycling in Cold War Eastern Europe: The Case of the “Bee” Waste Collection Trust in Hungary by Viktor Pál

Peer-reviewed 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.

We have begun posting the gender parity of The Dirt, especially given evidence that COVID-19 is increasing the skew in knowledge production to be ever more male, white, and childless. This bibliography is about 25% percent women-authored based on the Summers Gender Balance Assessment Tool.

Special Issues

• Infrastructural Politics, in Cultural Studies 35(4-5)
• Convenience as a Driver of Social Economies, in Economic Anthropology 8(2)

Reviews

• Review of Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now; Vincent Ialenti, 2020 // Fred Phillips

Audio/Visual

• Bring Your Own Brigade — documentary; Lucy Walker, director
• Percy vs Goliath — drama; Clark Johnson, director

Calls for papers/submissions

• Culture and the Impending Ecocatastrophe — University of Turku, Finland, October 20; abstract deadline September 15
• Competing Sovereignties: Intertwinement, Contestation, Evolution — 2nd Graduate Workshop at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany, December 3 & 4; abstract deadline September 19

Conferences & Symposia

• Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, October 6-9. Online.
• SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Digital Conference, October 25-29

Exhibitions

• Freshkills: a Solo Exhibition by Jade Doskow — Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville, NC; September 17-October 30

Positions

• PhD opportunities — Histories of Science, Medicine, and the Global South, University of California-Santa Cruz
• Residential Fellowships on the theme of Repair, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University; deadline September 21
• Two tenure-track positions (Assistant Professors) in African American or Black Diasporic Literature and Performance, Department of English, New York University; deadline October 1
• Tenure-track position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in the History of Modern Life Sciences, Harvard University; deadline October 15
• Tenure-track position (Assistant Professor) in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Tufts University; review of applications begins October 15
• Graduate Student Research Funding, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona; deadline September 7
• Research Associate in Social Science, Arctic Research Center, University of Virginia: review of applications begins September 15
• Tenure-track position (Assistant Professor), Asian American and/or Asian Diaspora Studies, Gallatin School, New York University; review of applications begins October 22
• Tenure-track position (Advanced Assistant) and tenured position (Associate Professor), History of Consciousness, University of California-Santa Cruz; next review date November 1
• Postdoctoral Scholar, Salish Sea Research Center, Northwest Indian College; review date September 16
• Executive Director, NWIC Foundation, Northwest Indian College
• Several Faculty Positions, Northwest Indian College
• Tenure-track/tenured position (open rank) in Race, Racism, and/or Black Experiences, Department of Sociology, McGill University; deadline September 20
• Tenure-track position (Assistant Professor), Native American and Indigenous Studies, Yale University; review of applications begins November 1
• Multiple tenure-track/tenured positions (open ranks), Indigenous Studies, SUNY-Buffalo; review of applications begins October 18
• Curator of Indigenous Studies, Royal Saskatchewan Museum
• Tenure-track position (Assistant Professor), English/Environmental Studies, University of Oregon; deadline October 15
• Multiple tenure-track/tenured positions (all ranks), Indigenous and Native American Studies, Princeton University; deadline October 1
• Multiple tenure-track/tenured positions in multiple fields, seeking 10 Black and 10 Indigenous scholars, University of Waterloo
• Graduate Research Assistant, Hawaiian Language Research and Translation, University of Hawaii-Manoa

New Patrons

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• Caroline Anna Salling. Thank you!

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