00000nam a22000008i 4500 UP-8027390931311416957 Buklod 20250303091940.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 250303s2024 enk o b 001 0 eng 9781350296633 (paperback) 23209943 Econ-34639 Mind Mover DLC DECON rda eng cc HC 79 E5 C57 2024 Circular economies in an unequal world waste, renewal, and the effects of global circularity edited by Patrick O'Hare, Dagna Rams. London Bloomsbury Academic 2024. viii, 235 pages 21 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated rdamedia n volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction - Circular Economies: Between the Promise of Renewal and Unequal Global Circulation / Patrick O'Hare and Dagna Rams - - Chapter 1: The Circular Economy of Metals and the Challenges of its Globalization in Ghana / Dagna Rams - - Chapter 2: Making E-Waste Circular: Countering Vicious Circle and Materializing Honesty / Julia Perczel - - Chapter 3: Stimulating Economies: Making Plastics Circular in Uruguay / Patrick O'Hare - - Chapter 4: Circular Economy and Servitization: Negotiating the EU's New Green Agenda in Greece / Alike Angelidou and Miming Pateraki - - Chapter 5: Disruptive but Normalizing?: What the Formalization of Informality can Tell us About the Circular Economy in the Global South / Sebastián Carenzo and Lucas Becerra - - Chapter 6: In the Shadow of the Circular Economy: Waste Pickers' Formalization and the Politics of a Changing Recycling Economy in Cartagena, Colombia / Laura Neville - - Chapter 7: Circular Economy of Wastewater: Recirculation, Spinning and Rolling to the Future / Daniel Sosna - - Chapter 8: The Circular Economy Law for Textiles in Germany and Its Predecessors / Heike Derwanz - - Chapter 9: The Circular Economy in China: For the People, with the People? / Benjamin Steuer - - Afterword: The Alchemy of the Circulation Economy / Andrew Sanchez. This landmark first anthropological volume on the topic of 'circular economies' brings together a range of international scholars with regional specialisations in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America to examine the concept's global implications. Aspirations towards circular economies have become increasingly prominent around the world, with the EU adopting an ambitious 'circular economy action plan', and China enshrining its own circular economy (xunhuan jingji) in law since 2008. Yet until now, social anthropology has largely neglected the potentially deep social impacts of this concept, focusing instead on metrics of waste, despite its obvious implications through every level of the economy and society. This volume covers a diverse array of international actors, including waste-pickers, traders and policymakers, and the global movement of materials like gold, plastic and textiles. Through ethnographic and qualitative case studies, it exposes many of the tensions that exist between state and corporate ideals of the circular economy, and the vernacular practices and philosophies that exist around the world. Contributors examine the frictions that emerge as these concepts and materials travel across different geographic contexts, and ask - what can an anthropological analysis contribute to a concept that is increasingly reshaping economies and restructuring global flows of virgin commodities, recyclables, and waste?"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. Circular economy. Sustainable development. O'Hare, Patrick editor. Rams, Dagna editor. Book FO UPD DECON HC 79 E5 C57 2024 Book