Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City (Activist Studies of Science & Technology) - Tapa dura

Schaffer, Guy

 
9781625347701: Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City (Activist Studies of Science & Technology)
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ISBN 10: 1625347707 ISBN 13: 9781625347701
Editorial: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023

Sinopsis

New Yorkers generate millions of tons of trash annually, which, through the magic of infrastructure and one of the largest waste management systems in the world, disappears from city sidewalks each night. Under pressure from environmentalists, activists, policymakers, and industry, the New York City Department of Sanitation started exploring ways to divert organic material from the waste stream, and in 2013, launched its composting pilot program.

Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork with community composters and microhaulers in New York City, alongside the rollout of the city’s curbside organics collection system, Composting Utopia describes how local, grassroots organizations intervened in the city’s waste system, enacting change and presenting an alternative vision of the composting city. As Guy Shaffer argues, movement-driven infrastructure projects develop new tools for organizing the world, give young people of color agency over urban design, and promote sustainability and justice.

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Guy Schaffer is lecturer in science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Editorial
University of Massachusetts Press
Año de publicación
2023
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1625347707
ISBN 13 
9781625347701
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Número de páginas
264
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