TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prorokova,Tatiana
TI  - Plastics, environment, culture and the politics of waste
SN  - 9781399511735
U1  - 668.4 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Plastics
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Environmental aspects
N2  - '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."--
ER  -