Choose a place on campus or in the immediate region. Describe how this space is physically structured around waste removal infrastructures, broadly understood. Try to choose a space that isn’t obviously a waste site, like not a local waste transfer station, but one where we wouldn’t normally think of waste. Include photos of the space in your description.
Readings for this week:
Nagle, Robin. Picking up: On the Streets and behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Ch 7-9.
Clapp, Jennifer. “The Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy.” In Confronting Consumption, edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca, 155–76. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002.