2010 Annual Meeting of Association of American Geographers Call For
Papers
Geographies of Waste and Value
Deadline for abstracts is October 21st. Send abstracts to:
Jutta Gutberlet: [log in to unmask]
Josh Lepawsky: [log in to unmask]
Risa Witson: [log in to unmask]
Waste, like space, is produced. With apologies to Henri Lefebvre, a
society secretes its own waste, it propounds and presupposes it (see
Lefebvre’s Production of Space, p. 38). Meanwhile, practices of
wasting vary from place to place in culturally distinctive ways and
have a wide range of meanings. Waste is placed, often at some
distance from its producers, but it always goes somewhere and is dealt
with by someone, knowingly or unknowingly. At the same time, waste
may be valued and valuable, where ‘value’ could connote monetary
measures, but also moral and ethical values broader than the scope of
economics.
We seek contributions that explore producing, placing, distancing, and
valuing as useful heuristics for investigations of the geographies of
waste. We encourage participation from an array of possible positions
including cultural, economic, social and behavioural, and policy
perspectives. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Waste for whom? Where? Under what conditions?
How does waste in one place/time become value in other places/times?
Waste governance and governmentality.
Informal, organized and community-based waste management.
Waste’s travels, routes, and conduits.
(Im)moral, (un)ethical, and (un)just geographies of waste.
(Il)legal geographies of waste.
Waste as assemblage and active materialit(y)ies.
Wastescapes and waste types.
Waste as commodity and commodity chain.
Waste aesthetics and the aesthetics of wastes.
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Josh Lepawsky
Assistant Professor
Memorial University
Department of Geography
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Canada
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