Do you research and write in any of these areas?

- Cities and Outskirts
- Waste Futures
- Time & Temporalities
- Space
- Art and Research Creation
- Energy and Climate Change
- Settlers and Colonialisms
- Monuments and Ruins
- Cultures and Citizenship

We’re looking for article ideas for our section in the Oxford Intersection on Cultures of Waste.

Learn more about the Call for Papers and how you can submit:

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Der Abfall, der Schmutz des Systems – Mary Douglas ruft an: Soziale Systeme entledigen sich Menschen, Dingen und Plätzen, die tatsächlich oder potenziell eine Gefahr darstellen, die eine gewünschte Ordnung infragestellen.

Darum geht es der #CDU und #Merz. Von Obdachlosen bis PoCs. #DiscardStudies

You can thank Warwick Anderson for this passage (...) about uncanny turds (Spectacles of Waste, ch 4)

#STS #DiscardStudies #waste

New book for nerds of waste (such as myself). Free, open access at the link:

https://academic.oup.com/book/59620

Corvellec, Hervé, ed. 2025. Waste as a Critique. 1st ed. Oxford University PressOxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198907077.001.0001.

#discardstudies #sts #wastestudies

LA fires aftermath: where will all the toxic fire debris go

"The #EPA continues evading questions about where the most dangerous material will ultimately end up"

https://lapublicpress.org/2025/02/fire-debris-landfill-local-los-angeles/

#DiscardStudies #ToxicLA

Very interesting. I wonder which ports export the most used vehicles 👀
https://www.visionofhumanity.org/second-hand-cars-out-of-sight-out-of-mind/

#WarOnCars #shipping #energy #pollution #DiscardStudies #PostUse

fantastic name and concept for an exhibition.
'Washing Machine Made of Beetroot'.
moreover, fantastic array of partners: Estonian Road Museum, Estonian Agricultural Museum and Tartu City Museum.
https://peedistpesumasin.ee/en/

visit it in connection with the conference 'Sustainability in Practice: DIY Repair, Reuse and Innovation'
https://enmconferences.ee/sustainability-2024

#DIY #repair #art #Estonia #sustainability #RepairSociety #DiscardStudies #design