Synopses & Reviews
As rates of consumption grow, the problem of waste management has increased significantly. National and local waste authorities seek to manage such problems through the implementation of state regulation and construction of waste infrastructure, including landfills and incinerators. These, however, are undertaken in a context of increasing supra-state regulatory frameworks and directives on waste management, and of increasing activity by multi-national corporations, and are increasingly contested by activists in the affected communities. Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure sheds new light on the structures of political opportunity that confront environmental movements that challenge the state or corporate sector. A series of case studies on collective action campaigns from the EU, US and Asia is elaborated in order to illuminate the similarities and differences between anti-incinerator protests within different states. Several contributions share a concern about cross-border or transnational waste flows. Each case study looks beyond its initial local frame of reference and goes on to interrogate assumptions about NIMBYism or localism, demonstrating the wider linkages and networks established by both grassroots campaigns and state and multinational agencies
This book was previously published as a special issue of Environmental Politics
Synopsis
As rates of consumption grow, the problem of waste management has increased significantly. This book sheds new light on the structures of political opportunity that confront environmental movements that challenge the state or corporate sector.
Synopsis
This book offers a critical perspective on the issue of organizing waste in cities, emphasizing the ways in which the notion of waste—and the narratives and discourses associated with it—have been socially constructed and the corresponding implications this has for waste governance and local wastehandling practices. It takes a broad approach to the ways in which the issue of waste is framed and brings together narratives from several diverse cities, uncovering the hidden stories of the urban waste landscape and connecting urban waste management to a host of social issues.
About the Author
Maria José Zapata is fellow in the Gothenburg Research Institute in the School of Business, Economics, and Law at the University of Gothenburg and at the Service Management Department at Lund University in Sweden. Michael Hall is professor in the Department of Management at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and fellow at the Freiberg Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany.
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: narratives of organising waste in the city
María José Zapata Campos and C. Michael Hall
Part I: Spaces, places and sites of waste in the city
2. The ecological and environmental significance of urban wastelands and drosscapes
C. Michael Hall
3. The function of waste urban infrastructures as heterotopias of the city: narratives from Gothenburg and Managua
María José Zapata Campos
Part II: Global waste discourses and narratives shaping local practices
4. When clean and green meets the Emerald Isle: contrasting waste governance narratives in Ireland and New Zealand
Anna Davies
5. Waste in translation: global ideas of urban waste management in local practice
Patrik Zapata
Part III: Waste governance and management practices
6. Governance in a bottle
Dario Minervini
7. Hybrid organisations in waste management: public and private organisations in a deregulated market environment
Philip Marcel Karré
8. Waste management companies: critical urban infrastructural services that design the sociomateriality of waste
Hervé Corvellec and Johan Hultman
Part IV: Waste and environmental, economic and social justice
9. Cairo’s contested waste: the Zabaleen’s local practices and privatisation policies
Wael Fahmi and Keith Sutton
10. Ecomodern discourse and localised narratives: waste policy, community mobilisation and governmentality in Ireland
Liam Leonard
11. Waste collection as an environmental justice issue: a case study of a neighbourhood in Bristol, UK
Karen Bell and David Sweeting
12. Conclusions: framing the organising of waste in the city
C. Michael Hall and María José Zapata Campos
Index