
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. Peter C. Little. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.
This book investigates the complex intersection of global e-waste trade, environmental toxicity, and the lived experiences of laborers in the Agbogbloshie site in Ghana. Peter C. Little, an anthropologist specializing in environmental health and political ecology, utilizes ethnographic fieldwork to examine how neoliberal policies and global technological consumption patterns manifest as physical and social hazards for marginalized populations. The author argues that the burning of electronic waste is not merely an economic activity but a form of 'pyropolitics' that reveals deep-seated postcolonial inequalities and the violent obsolescence inherent in modern consumer culture.
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Scholars in the fields of political ecology and medical anthropology recognize this work as a significant contribution to the study of toxic environments and global labor. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose and the author's rigorous application of ethnographic theory to contemporary environmental crises.
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Publication Date:
2021-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0190934565
ISBN-13:
9780190934569
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