The Dirt
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.
Author Archives: Max Liboiron
The what and the why of Discard Studies
We tend to think that we are familiar with waste because we deal with it every day. Yet, this is not the case–most aspects of waste are entirely hidden from view and understanding.
Discard Studies going dark, being reborn in mid-2018
Dear Discard Studies Readers, I have been posting on this blog every week for the past seven years. It has been a pleasure. I began as a PhD student under Robin Nagle, who founded this blog in 2010, and am now in my third year as an assistant professor. The blog began with a model […]
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Opportunities in Discard Studies (Dec 2017)
Call for papers: JEP 2019-1 Waste and globalised inequalities Special Issue Editor: Nicolas Schlitz, Stefan Laser Global capitalism and its transnational production networks have grown and changed drastically during the last three decades. This was coupled with an exponential growth, also of waste. The resultant ‘waste problem’ involved various types of waste, found different […]
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Announcements and Calls for Participation in Discard Studies (Nov 2017)
A collection of Discard Studies news items, calls for papers, positions, grants and awards. CFP: Special Issue on the Contested realities of the Circular Economy Deadline: November 15th 2018 This special issue of Culture and Organization invites contributions that question the Circular Economy in innovative ways. This special issue aims at bringing together critical, interpretive and theory-driven papers […]
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Article Alert! New Texts in Discard Studies (October 2017)
Since critical discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field. If you are interested in becoming an editor for non-English article alerts on Discard Studies, or know of a recent article for the next article […]
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New Texts in Discard Studies (September 2017)
Since critical discard studies doesn’t (yet!) have its own journal, conference, or department, Discard Studies publishes a regular table of contents alerts for articles, reports, and books in the field. If you are interested in becoming an editor for non-English article alerts on Discard Studies, or know of a recent article for the next article […]
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CFP: Organizing and Managing Waste (Dec 1)
Special issue call for papers from Society and Business Review Organizing and Managing Waste Deadline December 1st, 2017 Waste is not only a global environmental issue. It is also an extended nexus of material, energy, and symbolic flows that characterize contemporary patterns of production, distribution, and consumption. Beyond disposal and recycling, waste management includes prevention activities […]
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CFP: Nuclear Waste and Deep Time (Amsterdam)
Nuclear Waste and Deep Time Friday 3 November 2017, 16:00-17:00hrs Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2017 This workshop comes as part of the Nuclear Waste Weeks at the Enviromental Humanities Center at the VU, Amsterdam and aims to bring together PhD students from various disciplines that share a common intereset in nuclear waste and/or […]
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