Description:
What happens to people, places, and things that do not fit the progressive, ordering narratives of capitalism and modernity? This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open-endedness, and the possibility of going nowhere at all.
Brief description:
Catherine Alexander is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. Before her current appointment, she worked at Goldsmiths for ten years. She has published widely on wastes and recycling - including Economies of Recycling, co-edited with Joshua Reno (Zed Books, 2012) - as well as economic and urban anthropology.
Review Quotes:
"An excellent topic. What I liked in particular was the sense of cohesion... The authors have addressed situations that speak to each other." - Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University