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Burning Matters
- Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana
Engelsk Paperback
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Burning Matters
- Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana
Engelsk Paperback

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Global trade in electronic waste (e-waste) has led to various waste management challenges and many regions of the Global South have suffered the toxic consequences. In Burning Matters, Peter C. Little explores the complex cultural, economic, and environmental health politics of e-waste work in Ghana. He brings to light the lived experiences of Ghana''s e-waste workers, as they navigate the health, social, and economic challenges of highly toxic e-waste labor. In particular, Little engages the experiences of e-waste workers who burn bundles of electrical cables to extract copper, a practice that contaminates bodies and the urban environment and which has attracted international organizations seeking to mitigate risk and find quick tech solutions to this highly toxic e-waste work. A nuanced perspective on e-waste burning and environmental politics in Africa at a time when global e-waste generation and trade is at an all-time high, Burning Matters contends that e-waste interventions devoid of ethnographic perspective and knowledge risk downplaying the vibrant complexities of e-waste itself and the matters of social life and labor that matter most to Ghana''s e-waste workers.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
248
ISBN-13:
9780190934552
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0190934557
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 dec 2021
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
234mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
30 dec 2021
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