Organising Waste in the City : : International Perspectives on Narratives and Practices / / ed. by María José Zapata, Michael Hall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Bell, Karen,; Campos, María José Zapata,; Corvellec, Hervé,; Davies, Anna,; Fahmi, Wael,; Hall, C. Michael,; Hultman, Johan,; Karré, Philip Marcel,; Leonard, Liam,; Minervini, Dario,; Sutton, Keith,; Sweeting, David,; Zapata, Patrik,
• HerausgeberIn: Hall, Michael,; Zapata, María José,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

This book offers a critical perspective on the issue of organising waste in cities, which has often been positioned in terms of relatively narrow engineering, economic and physical science approaches. It emphasises the ways in which the notion of waste, and the narratives and discourses associated with it, have been socially constructed with corresponding implications for waste governance and local waste handling practices.Organising waste in the city takes a broad and international approach to the ways in which the issue of waste is framed, and brings together narratives from cities as diverse as Amsterdam, Bristol, Cairo, Gothenburg, Helsingborg and Managua. Organised into four main sections and with an integrative introduction and conclusion, the book not only provides new insights into the hidden stories of urban and municipal household solid waste and waste landscapes, but also connects concerns regarding urban waste to such issues as globalisation, governance, urban ecology, and social, economic and environmental justice.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: narratives of organising waste in the city -- Spaces, places and sites of waste in the city -- The ecological and environmental significance of urban wastelands and drosscapes -- The function of waste urban infrastructures as heterotopias of the city: narratives from Gothenburg and Managua -- Global waste discourses and narratives shaping local practices -- When clean and green meets the Emerald Isle: contrasting waste governance narratives in Ireland and New Zealand -- Waste in translation: global ideas of urban waste management in local practice -- Waste governance and management practices -- Governance in a bottle -- Hybrid organisations in waste management: public and private organisations in a deregulated market environment -- Waste management companies: critical urban infrastructural services that design the sociomateriality of waste -- Waste and environmental, economic and social justice -- Cairo’s contested waste: the Zabaleen’s local practices and privatisation policies -- Ecomodern discourse and localised narratives: waste policy, community mobilisation and governmentality in Ireland -- Waste collection as an environmental justice issue: a case study of a neighbourhood in Bristol, UK -- Conclusions: framing the organising of waste in the city -- Index