Culture and Waste The Creation and Destruction of Value

by Hawkins, Gay; Muecke, Stephen; Frow, John; Halperin, David; Harris, Jonathon Gil; Neill, Anna; Raitt, Suzanne; Rose, Deborah Bird; Taussig, Michael; Yaeger, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780742519824
• ISBN10: 0742519821
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-24
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The international contributors to this collection ask us to pause and consider the complex ways in which value is created and destroyed. Their diverse approaches of ethics, philosophy, cultural studies, and politics are at the forefront of a new field of ecohumanites.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Cultural Economies of Waste	ix
Gay Hawkins
Stephen Muecke
Out of Australia	1	(8)
David M. Halperin
Miasma	9	(16)
Michael Taussig
Invidious Distinction: Waste, Difference, and Classy Stuff	25	(14)
John Frow
Down the Drain: Shit and the Politics of Disturbance	39	(14)
Gay Hawkins
Decolonizing the Discourse of Environmental Knowledge in Settler Societies	53	(20)
Deborah Bird Rose
Psychic Waste: Freud, Fechner, and the Principle of Constancy	73	(11)
Suzanne Raitt
Hollywood's Pacific Junk: The Wreckage of Colonial History in Six Days and Seven Nights and Rapa Nui	84	(19)
Jonathan Gil Harris
Anna Neill
Trash as Archive, Trash as Enlightenment	103	(14)
Patricia Yaeger
Devastation	117	(12)
Stephen Muecke
Bibliography	129	(8)
Index	137	(4)
About the Contributors	141