Waste Studies at the AAG
Waste studies at the AAG in San Francisco
1204 Waste Studies I: The Wastes of Governance
scheduled on Tuesday, 3/29/2016, from 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM in Golden Gate 4, Hilton Hotel, Lobby Level
This session picks up on work that posits an understanding of waste as emergent, or as co-emerging alongside certain configurations (of governance) (e.g., Gille 2007, 2010; Gregson et al 2007; Hird 2012; Lepawsky and Mather 2011). As Brian Wynne points out, « waste exist[s] in the twilight zone where no clear, ‘natural’ definition of [it] can be given, within wide margins of uncertainty and variation » (1987: 1). Rather than being something that « just is » (Gregson and Crang 2010), waste must be made, brought into being, either materially or conceptually. Importantly, this bringing into being is far from linear and permanent. Rather, it is provisional, always subject to error and spatial and temporal variability, such as through global material flows of e-wastes and the ensuing micro-economies (Lepawsky and Mather 2011) to political leadership and « waste regimes » (Gille 2007, 2010).
This session would be an exploration of the idea that certain forms of governance can be materially and conceptually generative of waste. This particular line of reasoning is in contrast (though not in opposition) to other work that examines waste as pre-existing and in need of governing or management (e.g., Barr and Gilg 2007; Bulkeley et al, 2005, 2007; Davies 2008; Hird, Lougheed, Rowe and Kuyvenhoven 2014; Lougheed, Hird, and Rowe 2015). The ambition of this session is not to downplay this line of reasoning, but rather to move forward and invigorate theoretical and empirical exploration of waste emergence.
Organizer(s):
Scott Lougheed – Queen’s University
Isabel Urrutia – University of Toronto
Virginia Maclaren – UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Chair(s):
Scott Lougheed – Queen’s University
Abstract(s):
10:00 AM Author(s): *Scott Lougheed – Queen’s University
Abstract Title: The waste of Biopolitical food safety governance
10:20 AM Author(s): *Hyojin Pak – Leiden University
Abstract Title: Managing the Disorderly: Formal and Informal Actors in Making Seoul’s Nanji Landfill, 1978-1993
10:40 AM Author(s): *Lucy Jane Wishart, LLB MSc PhD –
Abstract Title: More Than Just Recycling. How Does the Goal of Zero Waste Impact Upon Ways of Thinking about Governance in Scotland?
11:00 AM Author(s): *Shelley Buchbinder – CUNY – Graduate Center
Abstract Title: The Good, the Bad and The Ugly in the former Industrial Northeast: Between Ideal Community and Community Dumping Ground
11:20 AM Author(s): *Waqas H Butt – University of California, San Diego
Abstract Title: The Political Categories of Waste Governance: a Consideration of Colonial and Contemporary Lahore
1404 Waste Studies II: Transitions and Circulations
is scheduled on Tuesday, 3/29/2016, from 12:40 PM – 2:20 PM
Organizer(s):
Virginia Maclaren – UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Isabel Urrutia – University of Toronto
Scott Lougheed – Queen’s University
Chair(s):
Virginia Maclaren – UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Abstract(s):
12:40 PM Author(s): *Carlo Inverardi Ferri – University of Oxford
Xin Tong – Peking University
Abstract Title: Variegated recycling: circuits of waste and value in Beijing
1:00 PM Author(s): *Angeliki Balayannis – University of Melbourne
Abstract Title: Un-becoming waste: ethics and the materialities of pesticide
1:20 PM Author(s): *Jamie Baxter – University Of Western Ontario
Yvonne Ho – Pollution Probe
Virginia Maclaren – University of Toronto
Yvonne Rollins – Western University
Abstract Title: Residents views of waste-to-energy facilities and waste diversion in Ontario, Canada
1:40 PM Author(s): *Virginia Maclaren – UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Mai Nguyen – UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Abstract Title: From Disposal to Diversion to Zero: Sustainability Transitions for Waste Management in Ontario, Canada
1504 Waste Studies III: Food waste
is scheduled on Tuesday, 3/29/2016, from 2:40 PM – 4:20 PM in Golden Gate 4, Hilton Hotel, Lobby Level
Organizer(s):
Isabel Urrutia – University of Toronto
Virginia Maclaren – UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Scott Lougheed – Queen’s University
Chair(s):
Isabel Urrutia – University of Toronto
1604 Waste Studies IV: Food waste
is scheduled on Tuesday, 3/29/2016, from 4:40 PM – 6:20 PM in Golden Gate 4, Hilton Hotel, Lobby Level
Organizer(s):
Isabel Urrutia – University of Toronto
Virginia Maclaren – UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Scott Lougheed – Queen’s University
Chair(s):
Isabel Urrutia – University of Toronto