{"product_id":"circular-economies-in-an-unequal-world-waste-renewal-and-the-effects-of-global-circularity-hardcover","title":"Circular Economies in an Unequal World: Waste, Renewal and the Effects of Global Circularity - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatrick O'Hare\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor), \u003cb\u003eDagna Rams\u003c\/b\u003e (Volume Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis landmark first anthropological open access volume on the topic of 'circular economies' brings together a range of international scholars with regional specialisations in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America to examine the concept's global implications. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAspirations towards a circular economy have become increasingly prominent around the world, yet until now, social anthropology has largely neglected the potentially deep social impacts of this concept, despite its obvious implications through every level of the economy and society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume covers a diverse array of international actors, including waste-pickers, traders and policymakers, and the global movement of materials like metals, plastic and textiles. Through ethnographic and qualitative case studies, it exposes many of the tensions that exist between state and corporate ideals of the circular economy, and the vernacular practices and philosophies that exist around the world. Contributors examine the frictions that emerge as these concepts and materials travel across different geographic contexts, and ask - what can an anthropological analysis contribute to a concept that is increasingly reshaping economies and restructuring global flows of virgin commodities, recyclables, and waste? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick O'Hare\u003c\/b\u003e is a UKRI Future Leader Fellow and Senior Researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. His research focuses on waste, recycling, plastics and labour. He is the author of Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons (2022). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDagna Rams\u003c\/b\u003e is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, UK, where she is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Her research has focused on global waste-to-resource trade between Ghana and the world and more recently on discourses and practices of sustainability in global metal markets. She studies how capitalism and technological innovation relate to resource extraction.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 25, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755354620192,"sku":"9781350296626","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fdcb7b848db25728d98eb5153d235baa.webp?v=1780056633","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/circular-economies-in-an-unequal-world-waste-renewal-and-the-effects-of-global-circularity-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}