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Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste
Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste
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Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste is a comprehensive study of plastics, from their invention to the present day, exploring their materiality, cultural significance, and environmental impact. It examines the intricate relationship between humanity and plastics, highlighting the toxic invasion of natural environments and human and nonhuman bodies. The book emphasizes the need to address the plastic crisis through culture.
Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 31 January 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
The first comprehensive study of plastics, from the moment they were invented to the present day, expands the existing research on the materiality of plastic, considering it as both a disposable and durable product. An essential read in times of environmental and health crises, when humanity must find new ways of existing and transform, among other things, our culture. Packed with insight from 24 contributors across 17 chapters, Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste examines plastic as a distinct cultural, political, and environmental phenomenon. It outlines the intricate relationship with plastic that humanity has been building over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, drawing on examples from history, the arts, and literature, as well as examining the place of plastics in the current health, environmental, and energy crises. The aim of this book is to reveal the complex nature of plastics, from their rapid incorporation into our advancing ways of life, to the reenvisioning of plastics' role in human life and how, through abundant production, consumption, and disposal of plastics, humanity has initiated a toxic invasion of natural environments and human and nonhuman bodies. Bringing together various perspectives from the humanities, this edited collection contributes to the ongoing research on plastics and petrocultures and emphasizes the crucial significance of addressing the plastic crisis through culture.
Weight: 722g
Dimension: 241 x 161 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399511735
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