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Global and Comparative Ethnography

Burning Matters

Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana

Peter C. (Associate Professor of Anthropology Little

Burning Matters

Global and Comparative Ethnography

Burning Matters

Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana

Global and Comparative Ethnography: Burning Matters

 

In Burning Matters, Peter C. Little examines the cultural, economic, and environmental health dimensions of electronic waste in Africa. Little draws on social science research to share the lived experiences of e-waste workers who burn bundles of electrical cables to extract copper, a practice that has raised concerns about toxic exposures to workers and urban environmental contamination.


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Beschrijving Global and Comparative Ethnography: Burning Matters

Global trade in electronic waste (e-waste) has led to various waste management challenges and many regions of the Global South have suffered the toxic consequences. In Burning Matters, Peter C. Little explores the complex cultural, economic, and environmental health politics of e-waste work in Ghana. He brings to light the lived experiences of Ghana's e-waste workers, as they navigate the health, social, and economic challenges of highly toxic e-waste labor. In particular, Little engages the experiences of e-waste workers who burn bundles of electrical cables to extract copper, a practice that contaminates bodies and the urban environment and which has attracted international organizations seeking to mitigate risk and find quick tech solutions to this highly toxic e-waste work. A nuanced perspective on e-waste burning and environmental politics in Africa at a time when global e-waste generation and trade is at an all-time high, Burning Matters contends that e-waste interventions devoid of ethnographic perspective and knowledge risk downplaying the vibrant complexities of e-waste itself and the matters of social life and labor that matter most to Ghana's e-waste workers.


ISBN
9780190934552
Pagina's
248
Verschenen
Serie
Global and Comparative Ethnography
Rubriek
Algemene sociale wetenschappen
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

Algemene sociale wetenschappen