TY - BOOK ID - 7242625 TI - Global garbage : urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment AU - Lindner, Christoph AU - Meissner, Miriam PY - 2016 SN - 9781138841390 9781315732251 9781317554417 9781317554424 9781138546455 1138841390 PB - London: Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Refuse and refuse disposal KW - Refuse and refuse disposal. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7242625 AB - Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and garbage in locations such as Beirut, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Naples, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran. In particular, the book examines how, and under what conditions, contemporary imaginaries of excess, waste, and abandonment perpetuate - but also sometimes counter - the imbalances of power that are frequently associated with the global metropolitan condition. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to the fields of anthropology, architecture, film and media studies, geography, urban studies, sociology, and cultural analysis. ER -