Plastics, environment, culture and the politics of waste /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Foreword: Plastic is Plastic (Cymene Howe) Introduction: The Petroproduct: On Plastics, Capitalism, and Oil (Tatiana Konrad)Part 1: Plastic Lives 1. Plastics, What Are They Good for? (Louise Dennis) 2. How Hula Hoops Changed Hygiene: From Damp Cloth Utopianism to Chemical Cleaning (Angela Cope) 3. The Anti-Plastic City: Local Governments, Plastic Waste, and the Undoing of the Weak Recycling Waste Regime in the United States (Lily Baum Pollans) Part 2: Plastic Proliferation 4. From Plasticity to the Aisthesis of Queer Toxicity (Amanda Boetzkes and Dana Feldman) 5. Microplastics in Arctic Sea Ice: A Petromodern Archive Fever (Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse) 6. Jugoplastika: Plastics and Postsocialist Realism (Andrija Filipović) 7. Failed Infrastructures, My Little Ponies, and Wadden Plastics: The Eco-Intimacies of the MSC Zoe Container Disaster (Renée Hoogland) Part 3: Plastics in Art 8. The Pioneers of Plasticraft: When Artists Found Plastics in the United States (Danielle O'Steen) 9. Plastic Intimacy: Chinese Art Making as Recycling Practice (Victoria Oana Lupascu) 10. Plastic Poetics: Challenging the Epistemologies of Plastic Waste in the Artwork of Maria Roelofsen (Nathan Beck and Jeff Diamanti) 11. The Performance of Plasticity: Method Acting, Prosthetics, and the Virtuosity of Embodied Transformation (David LaRocca) Part 4: Plastics in Literature 12. Polymeric Thinking: Allison Cobb's Plastic: An Autobiography (Lynn Keller) 13. Plastic City: Temporality, Materiality, and Waste in Vanessa Berry's Mirror Sydney (Emily Potter and Kirsten Seale) 14. Better Learning through Plastic?: The Moby-Duck Saga and Pedagogy (Donna A. Gessell) Part 5: Plastics and the Future 15. Disposable: The Dirty Word in Medical Plastics (Patrick D. Murphy) 16. Eco-Fascism and Alienation: Plastics in a Post-COVID World (Sasha Adkins and Brittany Y. Davis) 17. Plastic in the Time of Impasse (Mark Simpson) Contributors. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource () : illustrations (black and white). |
| ISBN: | 9781399511766 1399511769 9781399511759 1399511750 |