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This book brings together diverse international scholars who interrogate waste from a myriad of disciplines within the social sciences and humanities. These disciplines come across the many faces and dimensions of waste, adding new understandings of common and hidden waste related problems. These insider perspectives and reflections offer innovative ways of addressing waste related dilemmas by highlighting solutions and proposing new approaches. The chapters in this book showcase and offer practical experiences from global South and global North communities. The authors critically discuss the roles and trajectories of waste and those that work with waste.

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Alison Stowell, is an associate professor at Lancaster University, UK. She is currently researching waste and inclusive solutions, enactments of waste policy, latent values and waste occupations. Jutta Gutberlet is a professor in Geography and Director of the Community-based Research Laboratory (CBRL) at the University of Victoria (UVic), Canada. She is currently researching waste and sustainability, local livelihoods, resilient community building and healthy planet. Francisco Valenzuela is an assistant professor at the School of Business and Economics, University of Chile. He is currently researching the embodiment of affect, identity and ideology at the workplace, discourses and subjectivities underpinning waste management practices and socio-environmental governance. Patrik Zapata is a professor in Public Administration, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is currently researching the management of cities, waste management, sustainable organizing, and labour market integration. María José Zapata Campos is an associate professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is currently researching the intersection between civil society, local government and socio-environmental entrepreneurship in Latin America, East Africa and Europe.

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