Indeterminacy
Waste, Value, and the Imagination
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-1-78920-755-2 (ISBN)
Description
What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings imply that progress leaves such things behind, and excludes them as though they were valueless waste. This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to explore how conditions of exclusion and abandonment may give rise to new values, as well as to states of despair and alienation. Drawing upon ethnographic research about a wide variety of contexts, the chapters here explore how indeterminacy is created and experienced in relationship to projects of classification and progress.
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"An excellent topic. What I liked in particular was the sense of cohesion... The authors have addressed situations that speak to each other." * Bjorn Thomassen, Roskilde UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
16 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78920-755-2 (9781789207552)
DOI
10.3167/9781789200096
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Persons
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.
Content
List of Figures
Introduction: The Values of Indeterminacy
Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez
Chapter 1. Kept in Suspense: The Unsettling Indeterminacy of US Landfills
Joshua O. Reno
Chapter 2. Experiments in Living: The Value of Indeterminacy in Trans Art
Elena Gonzalez-Polledo
Chapter 3. The Production of Indeterminacy: On the Unforeseeable Futures of Postindustrial Excess
Felix Ringel
Chapter 4. Human Waste in the Land of Abundance: Two Kinds of Gypsy Indeterminacy in Norway
Cathrine Moe Thorleiffson and Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Chapter 5. Waste People/Value Producers: Ambiguity, Indeterminacy and Postsocialist Russian-Speaking Miners
Eeva Keskuela
Chapter 6. Indeterminate Classifications: Being "More than Kin" in Kazakhstan
Catherine Alexander
Chapter 7. The Politics of Indeterminacy: Boundary Dislocations around Waste, Value and Work in Subic Bay (Philippines)
Elisabeth Schober
Epilogue: Indetertminacy: Between Worth and Worthlessness
Niko Besnier and Susana Narotzky
Index
Introduction: The Values of Indeterminacy
Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez
Chapter 1. Kept in Suspense: The Unsettling Indeterminacy of US Landfills
Joshua O. Reno
Chapter 2. Experiments in Living: The Value of Indeterminacy in Trans Art
Elena Gonzalez-Polledo
Chapter 3. The Production of Indeterminacy: On the Unforeseeable Futures of Postindustrial Excess
Felix Ringel
Chapter 4. Human Waste in the Land of Abundance: Two Kinds of Gypsy Indeterminacy in Norway
Cathrine Moe Thorleiffson and Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Chapter 5. Waste People/Value Producers: Ambiguity, Indeterminacy and Postsocialist Russian-Speaking Miners
Eeva Keskuela
Chapter 6. Indeterminate Classifications: Being "More than Kin" in Kazakhstan
Catherine Alexander
Chapter 7. The Politics of Indeterminacy: Boundary Dislocations around Waste, Value and Work in Subic Bay (Philippines)
Elisabeth Schober
Epilogue: Indetertminacy: Between Worth and Worthlessness
Niko Besnier and Susana Narotzky
Index