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Author: Michael Thompson ,
Joshua O. Reno
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Edition: New edition
Weight: 0.487kg
ISBN: 9780745399799
ISBN 10: 0745399797
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 20 June 2017
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'This original, insightful, and entertaining book should be compulsory reading for everyone on our overpopulated and overexploited planet.' -- Ian Stewart, author of Seventeen Equations that Changed the World (Profile Books, 2012) Rubbish Theory is a remarkably original and creative book. Far ahead of its time, it still comes across as stimulating and innovative. Describing the transformation of objects from transient to durable, and from rubbish to valuable, Thompson's analysis is not only a major contribution to the anthropological theorising of waste and value, but it is also highly relevant for the contemporary dilemmas of growth and environmental destruction. -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, author of Overheating (Pluto, 2016)
'A remarkably original and creative book, far ahead of its time. Thompson's analysis is not only a major contribution to the anthropological theorising of waste and value, but it is also highly relevant for the contemporary dilemmas of growth and environmental destruction' -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, author of Overheating (Pluto, 2016) 'Original, insightful, and entertaining.' -- Ian Stewart, author of Seventeen Equations that Changed the World (Profile Books, 2012)
'Original, insightful, and entertaining.' -- Ian Stewart, author of Seventeen Equations that Changed the World (Profile Books, 2012) 'A remarkably original and creative book, far ahead of its time. Thompson's analysis is not only a major contribution to the anthropological theorising of waste and value, but it is also highly relevant for the contemporary dilemmas of growth and environmental destruction' -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, author of Overheating (Pluto, 2016)
'Original, insightful, and entertaining' -- Ian Stewart, author of Seventeen Equations that Changed the World (Profile Books, 2012) 'Witty and wide-ranging scholarly scholarly study ... a fascinating contribution to cultural theory' -- The Guardian 'A remarkably original and creative book, far ahead of its time. Thompson's analysis is not only a major contribution to the anthropological theorising of waste and value, but it is also highly relevant for the contemporary dilemmas of growth and environmental destruction' -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen, author of Overheating (Pluto, 2016) 'Highly recommended' -- CHOICE
Author Information
Michael Thompson is a Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford. He is the author of Rubbish Theory (Pluto, 2017). Joshua O. Reno is a Professor at Binghamton University, US. A socio-cultural anthropologist, he is the author of Waste Away, Military Waste and co-author of Imagining the Heartland. He co-edited the collection Economies of Recycling.
