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From the cult of waste to the trash heap of history : the politics of waste in socialist and postsocialist Hungary /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gille, Zsuzsa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Post-communism > Hungary.
Refuse and refuse disposal > Social aspects > Hungary.
Environmental policy > Hungary.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Was state socialism wasteful?
  • Toward a social theory of waste
  • Discipline and recycle (1948-1974)
  • Metallic socialism
  • The primitive accumulation of waste in metallic socialism
  • Reform and reduce (1975-1984)
  • The efficiency model
  • The limits of efficiency
  • Privatize and incinerate (1985-present)
  • The chemical model
  • "Building a castle out of shit": the wastelands of the new Europe
  • Conclusion.