- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "Wastelands is an in-depth exploration of trash, the scavengers who collect it, and the precarious communities it sustains. After enduring war and persecution in Kosovo, many Ashkali refugees fled to Belgrade, Serbia, where they were stigmatized as Gypsies, consigned to slums, sidelined from the economy, and subjected to violence. To survive, Ashkali collect the only resource available to them: garbage. Vividly recounting everyday life in an illegal Romani settlement, Eirik Saethre's searing book follows Ashkali as they scavenge through dumpsters, build shacks, siphon electricity, negotiate the recycling trade, and migrate between Belgrade, Kosovo, and the European Union. Saethre argues that trash is not just a means of survival-it reinforces the status of Ashkali as a polluted Other, creates indissoluble bonds to transnational capitalism, enfeebles bodies, and establishes a localized sovereignty. In these geographies of displacement, suffering is boring and trash is transformative"--
- Uniform Title
- Wastelands (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Wastelands (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction : the other world -- The sociality of exception -- Precarious domesticity -- Abject economies -- Constrained aspirations -- Relocations -- Conclusion : Jebem Ti Život
- LCCN
- 2020017887
- OCLC
- ssj0002405320
- Author
Saethre, Eirik.
- Title
Wastelands [electronic resource] : recycled commodities and the perpetual displacement of Ashkali and Romani Scavengers / Eirik Saethre.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Saethre, Eirik. Wastelands Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520368491 (DLC) 2020017886