Plastics, environment, culture and the politics of waste / edited by Tatiana Konrad.
Contributor(s): Prorokova, Tatiana [editor.]
.Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023Description: xix, 363 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781399511735.Subject(s): Plastics -- History | Plastics -- Social aspects | Plastics -- Environmental aspectsDDC classification: 668.4 Summary: 'Plastics, Environment, Culture and the Politics of Waste' Explores plastic as a distinct cultural, political, and environmental phenomenon. This book outlines the intricate relationship with plastic that humanity has been building over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, drawing on examples from history, the arts, and literature. It reveals the complex nature of plastics, from their rapid incorporation into our advancing ways of life, to the re-envisioning of plastics' role in human life. Examining the place of plastics in current health, environmental and energy crises, the traces how, through abundant production, consumption, and disposal of plastics, humanity has initiated a toxic invasion of natural environments and human and nonhuman bodies. Bringing together various perspectives form the humanities, it highlights the crucial significance of addressing the plastic crisis through culture."-- Back cover.
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'Plastics, Environment, Culture and the Politics of Waste' Explores plastic as a distinct cultural, political, and environmental phenomenon. This book outlines the intricate relationship with plastic that humanity has been building over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, drawing on examples from history, the arts, and literature. It reveals the complex nature of plastics, from their rapid incorporation into our advancing ways of life, to the re-envisioning of plastics' role in human life. Examining the place of plastics in current health, environmental and energy crises, the traces how, through abundant production, consumption, and disposal of plastics, humanity has initiated a toxic invasion of natural environments and human and nonhuman bodies. Bringing together various perspectives form the humanities, it highlights the crucial significance of addressing the plastic crisis through culture."-- Back cover.