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Author: Zsuzsa Gille
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Edition: Annotated
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.548kg
ISBN: 9780253348388
ISBN 10: 0253348382
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 04 April 2007
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Judit Bodnar, American Journal of Sociology, May 2008--Judit Bodnar American Journal of Sociology
<p>Was socialism dirty? Was it wasteful? Is trash useless? What is waste, anyway? Through these provocative questions and similarly provocative and complexanswers, Zsuzsa Gille builds social history and analysis from a liminal site: industrial refuse, or more concretely, an official but not always fully recognizeddump site in the Hungarian village of Gar . The study is a beautiful example of theextended case method: it starts with and in Gar, and it ends there. In between, ittakes us back to 1948, when no one had an inkling of the future awaiting the village-- the dump site was established in 1978 -- and recounts how and why it came toaccommodate a Budapest plant's toxic waste. Gar has remained a dump site untilnow, while its form and rationale have changed in an intricate scheme of local, regional, national, and global forces and actors.<p>In Gille's bookwe can read an extended history of state socialism, its disintegration andtransformation, as it connects to that of capitalism anda
Gille's book is a fascinating analysis of environmental policies and the politics of waste, as well a study of socialism through its relationships with what is usually considered as a byproduct of production and/or consumption. Year XV.2 2009 -- Barbara Potrata * Leeds Institute of Health Studies * This is a good book, with a masterful balance of common sense and sophisticated social analysis that does not let relevance be defined by academic discourse only.May 2008 -- Judit Bodnar * American Journal of Sociology *
<p>Gille's book is a fascinating analysis of environmental policies and the politics of waste, as well a study of socialism through its relationships with what is usually considered as a byproduct of production and/or consumption. --Barbara Potrata, Leeds Institute of Health Studies Anthropological Notebooks (01/01/2009)
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Author Information
Zsuzsa Gille grew up in socialist Hungary and was active in semi-legal environmental and peace movements. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
