Waste and discards in the Asia Pacific Region : social and cultural perspectives /: social and cultural perspectives. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Viktor Pál and Iris Borowy.
• Editors: Pál, Viktor; Borowy, Iris, 1962-
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Contemporary Cultural Perspectives on Discards in the Asia-Pacific Region Viktor Pál and Iris Borow 2. Caste, Hierarchy and Cultural Construction of Food (Waste?) Madhu 3. Environment by, with, and for the Citizens: Collective Identity Shaping the Community-Driven Solid Waste Management in Kerala, India Pinar Temocin 4. Polluted Histories, Clean Futures? Differing Scenarios for an Electronic Waste Circular Economy in China Alicia Ng 5. What Type of Trash are You? Steering "Green" Citizenship and Self-Responsibility in Urban China Virginie Arantes 6. Becoming Visible: An Examination of Chen Qiulin’s Farewell Poem (2002) and Jia Zhangke’s Still Life (2006) Rosaline (Yi Yi Mon) Kyo 7. Individually and Collectively Grieving the Fukushima Dead at a Waste-Mountain: A Reading of Post-3/11 Novel ‘Hikari no Yama [Mountain of Light]’ by Japanese Monk-Writer Genyu Sokyu Keitaro Morita 8. Defining Food (and its Waste) Betsy Price and Paige Lalonde 9. Waste Through Different Eyes: Multi-Sited Photovoice Explorations Michael Chew 10. Afterword: Planetary Potlatch: Scrutinizing the Moral Economy of Recycling Peter Wynn Kirby
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (216 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 363.728095; Waste products -- Pacific Area; Sustainability -- Pacific Area; Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Pacific Area
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000898385; 9781000898354
• Related ISBNs: 9781032366142
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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