Plastics, Environment, Culture and the Politics of Waste /

Plastics, Environment, Culture and the Politics of Waste / / ed. by Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad.

The first comprehensive study of plastics, from the moment they were invented to the present day Expands the existing research on the materiality of plastic, considering it as both a disposable and durable productAn essential read in times of environmental and health crises, when humanity must find...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
MitwirkendeR:
Adkins, Sasha,
Beck, Nathan,
Boetzkes, Amanda,
Cope, Angela,
Davis, Brittany Y.,
Dennis, Louise,
Feldman, Dana,
Filipović, Andrija,
Gessell, Donna A.,
Hoogland, Renée,
Howe, Cymene,
Jeff, Jeff,
Keller, Lynn,
Konrad, Tatiana,
LaRocca, David,
Lupascu, Victoria Oana,
Mitchell, Chantelle,
Murphy, Patrick D.,
O’Steen, Danielle,
Pollans, Lily Baum,
Potter, Emily,
Seale, Kirsten,
Simpson, Mark,
Waterhouse, Jaxon,
HerausgeberIn:
Prorokova-Konrad, Tatiana,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: The Petroproduct: On Plastics, Capitalism, and Oil
  • Part I Plastic Lives
  • 1 Plastics: What Are They Good For?
  • 2 How Hula Hoops Changed Hygiene: From Damp-Cloth Utopianism to Chemical Cleaning
  • 3 The Anti-Plastic City: Local Governments, Plastic Waste, and the Undoing of the Weak Recycling Waste Regime in the United States
  • Part II Plastic Proliferation
  • 4 From Plasticity to the Aesthesis of Queer Toxicity
  • 5 Microplastics in Arctic Sea Ice: A Petromodern Archive Fever
  • 6 Jugoplastika: Plastics and Postsocialist Realism
  • 7 Failed Infrastructures, My Little Ponies, and Wadden Plastics: The Eco-Intimacies of the MSC Zoe Container Disaster
  • Part III Plastics in Art
  • 8 The Pioneers of Plasticraft: When Artists Found Plastics in the United States
  • 9 Plastic Intimacy: Chinese Art Making as Recycling Practice
  • 10 Plastic Poetics: Challenging the Epistemologies of Plastic Waste in the Artwork of Maria Roelofsen
  • 11 The Performance of Plasticity: Method Acting, Prosthetics, and the Virtuosity of Embodied Transformation
  • Part IV Plastics in Literature
  • 12 Polymeric Thinking: Allison Cobb’s Plastic: An Autobiography
  • 13 Plastic City: Temporality, Materiality, and Waste in Vanessa Berry’s Mirror Sydney
  • 14 Better Learning through Plastic?: The Moby-Duck Saga and Pedagogy
  • Part V Plastics and the Future
  • 15 Disposable: The Dirty Word in Medical Plastics
  • 16 Eco-Fascism and Alienation: Plastics in a Post-COVID World
  • 17 Plastic in the Time of Impasse
  • Index

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