- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- "This book explores the complex cultural, economic, and environmental health politics of electronic waste (e-waste) in Ghana. Global trade in e-waste has led to various global e-waste management challenges and many regions of the Global South, like Ghana, have suffered the consequences. Based on ethnographic research, the book exposes the lived experience of Ghana's e-waste workers, as they navigate the health, social, and economic challenges of e-waste labor, especially e-waste workers burning electrical wires to extract copper, a valuable and ubiquitous tech metal. With a particular focus on e-waste workers working in an urban scrap metal market known as Agbogbloshie, the book examines the ways in which this labor practice has raised concerns about toxic exposures and urban environmental contamination and has drawn the attention of international organizations seeking to find "green" solutions to severe environmental and health risks posed by these e-waste burning. Addressing the practices and risks of e-waste burning and the politics and optimism of environmental health interventions, the book explores the theoretical import of the "pyropolitical ecology of e-waste," an approach developed to augment and synthesize the emerging anthropology and political ecology of e-waste ruination, environmental justice, and uncertainty in the Global South"--
- Series Statement
- Global and comparative ethnography
- Uniform Title
- Burning matters (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Burning matters (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-221) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: From e-waste ashes to ethnographic intervention -- Amidst global e-waste trades and green neoliberalization -- "We are all North here" : Dagomba migrations and meanings -- Erasure, demolition, and violent obsolescence in the urban margins -- Embodied burning, e-waste epidemiology, and toxic postcolonial corporality -- Visualizing Agbogbloshie and re-envisioning e-waste anthropology -- Looming uncertainties and neoliberal techno-optimism -- Conclusion: New openings, relations, and burning matters.
- LCCN
- 2021018000
- OCLC
- ssj0002516084
- Author
Little, Peter C.
- Title
Burning matters [electronic resource] : life, labor, and e-waste pyropolitics in Ghana / Peter C. Little.
- Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 2022
- Series
Global and comparative ethnography
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-221) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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