Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging: 22 (Alternative Criminology) - Tapa blanda

I love this book! It's engaging, witty, and jarringevery page is filled with new treasures and powerful analyses of our throwaway culture. Ferrell opens a rare and vivid window on the raw aftermath of our society's conspicuous consumption and wasteful behavior, and he offers real possibilities for reflection, meditation, and redemption. -- David Naguib, author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago By turns moving, funny, and shocking. Particularly sobering are the books implications for modern consumer life, and the incomprehensible amounts of junk, waste and surplus generated by a modern city. -- Philip Jenkins,author of Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America In Empire of Scrounge, Jeff Ferrell serves as an unassuming guide into the netherworld of our own garbage. Ferrell suggests that such urban prospecting is possibly far more than simple recyclingit is a form of politics that consciously opts out of a vapid consumer culture. It's a must read! -- Meda Chesney-Lind, co-editor of Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment A firecracker of a book. Prepare yourself for total immersion. It reads like Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell with a sense of fun; it has all the detail and magic of James Agee. A pleasure to read: anarchic, irreverent and totally relevant. -- Jock Young,co-editor of The New Politics of Crime and Punishment Outstandingly well written, gripping, and hugely entertaining. Destined to become a classic, this anarchy of consumerism turns one man's 'trash' into a treasure: an insightful, colorful, imaginative and playful window on the underground economy of scavenging for a living among other people's cast offs. -- Stuart Henry, co-author of Essential Criminology