Economies of Recycling: The global transformation of materials, values and social relations [Paperback]

Introduction - Catherine Alexander and Joshua Reno

Section One: Global waste flows
1. Shoddy rags and relief blankets: perceptions of textile recycling in north India - Lucy Norris
2. Death, the Phoenix and Pandora: transforming things and values in Bangladesh - Mike Crang, Ni cky Gregson, Farid Ahamed, Raihana Ferdous and Nasreen Akhter
3. One cycle to bind them all? Geographies of nuclearity in the uranium fuel cycle - Romain Garcier
4. The shadow of the global network: e-waste flows to China - Xin Tong, Jici Wang

Section Two: The ethics of waste labour
5. Devaluing the dirty work: gendered trash work in participatory Dakar - Rosalind Fredericks
6. Stitching curtains, grinding plastic: social and material transformation in Buenos Aires - Karen Ann Faulk
7. Trash ties: urban politics, economic crisis and Rio de Janeiro's garbage dump - Kathleen M. Millar
8. Sympathy and its boundaries: necropolitics, labour and waste on the Hooghly river - Laura Bear

Section Three: Traces of former lives
9. 'No junk for Jesus': redemptive economies and value conversions in Lutheran medical aid - Britt Halvorson
10. Evident excess: material deposits and narcotics surveillance in the USA - Joshua Reno
11. Remont: works in progress - Catherine Alexander

Afterword - David Graeber