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020			_a9781399511735 _qhardback
020			_z9781399511766 _qePub ebook
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245	0	0	_aPlastics, environment, culture and the politics of waste / _cedited by Tatiana Konrad.
264		1	_aEdinburgh : _bEdinburgh University Press, _c2023.
300			_axix, 363 pages : _billustrations (black and white)
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520	8		_a'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."-- _cBack cover.
650		0	_aPlastics _xHistory. _9127489
650		0	_aPlastics _xSocial aspects. _9127490
650		0	_aPlastics _xEnvironmental aspects. _9127491
700	1		_aProrokova, Tatiana, _eeditor. _9127492
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