Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana
Author:   Peter C. Little (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rhode Island College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 December 2021
Format:   Paperback
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Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana


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Author:   Peter C. Little (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rhode Island College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.367kg
ISBN:  

9780190934552


ISBN 10:   0190934557
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction: From E-Waste Ashes to Ethnographic Intervention 1. Amidst Global E-Waste Trades and Green Neoliberalization 2. ""We Are All North Here"": Dagomba Migrations and Meanings 3. Erasure, Demolition, and Violent Obsolescence in the Urban Margins 4. Embodied Burning, E-Waste Epidemiology, and Toxic Postcolonial Corporality 5. Visualizing Agbogbloshie and Re-Envisioning E-Waste Anthropology 6. Looming Uncertainties and Neoliberal Techno-Optimism Conclusion: New Openings, Relations, and Burning Matters Notes References Index"

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Burning Matters is ethnographically rich with Little's attention to detail and his elegant descriptions of labour and life around e-waste in Agbogbloshie. This thick ethnography sets a new bar for ethnographies of e-waste, precarious labour and urban African marginalities. In addition, the book excellently weaves together history, global forces, technologies and e-waste politics at Agbogbloshie. Burning Matters is a pioneer oeuvre and an excellent contribution to the growing body of ethnography of e-waste in urban Africa. * Anthropology Southern Africa *


Author Information

Peter C. Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College. He is author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks (2014).

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