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  Piles of Plastic on Darkening Himalayan Peaks: Changing Cosmopolitics of ‘Pollution’ in Limi, Western Nepal

  Hildegard Diemberger, Samanta Skrivere

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  09 Sep 2021

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  ‘Stingy, Stingy, Stingy Government’: Mixed Responses to the Introduction of the Plastic Carrier Bag Levy in Japan

  Brigitte Steger

  Special Collection: The Bag and Beyond: Social Science and the Social Life of Plastic

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  24 Jun 2021

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  Cambridge, Carnaval, and the ‘Actually Existing Circularity’ of Plastics

  Patrick O'Hare

  Special Collection: The Bag and Beyond: Social Science and the Social Life of Plastic

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  27 May 2021

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  ‘Drinking and Dropping’: On Interacting with Plastic Pollution and Waste in South-Eastern Nigeria

  Lesley Henderson, Emeka Dumbili

  Special Collection: The Bag and Beyond: Social Science and the Social Life of Plastic

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  04 May 2021

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  Problematising Plastic: A Visual Analysis of the ‘Jute not Plastic’ Campaign, 1976–1979 (Switzerland, Germany, Austria)

  Charlotte Bruns, Matthias Sommer

  Special Collection: The Bag and Beyond: Social Science and the Social Life of Plastic

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  04 May 2021

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  Introduction to Special Collection: Social Science and the Social Life of Plastic

  Brigitte Steger, Patrick O’Hare, Teresa Sandra Perez

  Special Collection: The Bag and Beyond: Social Science and the Social Life of Plastic

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  04 May 2021

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  Scarecrows and Scapegoats: The Futility and Power of Cleaning a Landscape

  Khalil Avi Betz-Heinemann, Joseph Tzanopoulos

  Special Collection: Dirty Places, Geographies of Waste

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  23 Dec 2020

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  The Fluid Geography of Rubbish: An Analysis of the Patras Refugee Camp (1999–2009)

  Sotiris Lycourghiotis

  Special Collection: Dirty Places, Geographies of Waste

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  23 Nov 2020

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  Editorial Introduction to the Special Collection ‘Dirty Places, Geographies of Waste’

  Jaime Moreno-Tejada

  Special Collection: Dirty Places, Geographies of Waste

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  17 Nov 2020

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  Waste Pickers at the Heart of the Circular Economy: A Perspective of Inclusive Recycling from the Global South

  Jutta Gutberlet, Sebastián Carenzo

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  30 Sep 2020

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  Shifting Definitions of Hazardous Wastes

  
  

  Craig Colten

  Special Collection: Development of Waste – Development as Waste

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  21 Aug 2020

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  Cultural Origins of Japan’s Premodern Night Soil Collection System

  Marta E. Szczygiel

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  11 Aug 2020

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  “We Are Already Sick”: Infectious Waste Management and Inequality in the Time of Covid-19, a Reflection from Blantyre, Malawi

  Elizabeth Tilley, Marc Kalina

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  24 Jun 2020

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  Secrecy at the End of the Recycling Chain: The Recycling of Plastic Waste in Surabaya, Indonesia

  Freek Colombijn

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  08 Apr 2020

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  A Deal over Dirt

  
  

  Sophie Lange

  Special Collection: Development of Waste – Development as Waste

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  29 Jan 2020

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  Hazardous Waste: The Beginning of International Organizations Addressing a Growing Global Challenge in the 1970s

  Iris Borowy

  Special Collection: Development of Waste – Development as Waste

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  12 Dec 2019

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  Editorial Introduction to the Special Collection ‘Development of Waste – Development as Waste’

  Iris Borowy

  Special Collection: Development of Waste – Development as Waste

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  12 Dec 2019

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  The Struggle for Sustainable Waste Management in Hong Kong: 1950s–2010s

  Nele Fabian, Loretta Ieng Tak Lou

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  06 Nov 2019

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  In the Name of Circularity: Environmental Improvement and Business Slowdown in a Chinese Recycling Hub

  Yvan Schulz, Anna Lora-Wainwright

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  13 Jun 2019

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  A Materially Contextualised Account of Waste Pickers’ Marginalisation in Brazil: The Case of ‘Rubbish PET’

  Tatianna Mello Pereira da Silva

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  13 Jun 2019

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  The Spectre of Superbugs: Waste, Structural Violence and Antimicrobial Resistance in India

  Assa Doron, Alex Broom

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  11 Mar 2019

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  On Materiality and Meaning: Ethnographic Engagements with Reuse, Repair & Care

  Cindy Isenhour, Joshua Reno

  Special Collection: Reuse and Repair

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  25 Jan 2019

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  Building Castles out of Debris: Reuse Interior Design as a ‘Design of the Concrete’

  Staffan Appelgren

  Special Collection: Reuse and Repair

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  25 Jan 2019

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  ‘It will Keep Circulating’: Loving and Letting Go of Things in Swedish Second-hand Markets

  Anna Bohlin

  Special Collection: Reuse and Repair

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  25 Jan 2019

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  Reminiscence and Recompense: Reuse and the Garage Sale

  
  

  Gretchen M. Herrmann

  Special Collection: Reuse and Repair

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  25 Jan 2019

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