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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kathleen M. MillarPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780822370314ISBN 10: 082237031 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 13 February 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Arriving beyond Abjection 35 2. The Precarious Present 67 3. Life Well Spent 95 4. Plastic Economy 123 5. From Refuse to Revolution 151 Conclusion: The Garbage Never Ends 177 Notes 191 References 207 Index 223ReviewsReclaiming the Discarded offers rich theoretical and empirical insights into the dynamics of work in the informal sector under the conditions of neoliberal capitalism. -- Ajnesh Prasad and Paulina Segarra * Organization * The end result is a thought-provoking and pleasurable read that will be of value to scholars and students with an interest in Brazil and Latin America, economic anthropology, globalization, and urban anthropology. -- Gustavo S. Azenha * Amerian Ethnologist * Rich in ethnographic detail and theoretically engaging, Reclaiming the Discarded will surely find a receptive audience in graduate seminars and upper-year undergraduate courses on economic anthropology or the anthropology of work. -- Stephen Campbell * American Anthropologist * A book that brings dignity to people otherwise considered marginal and reveals a progressive potential in work otherwise considered 'rubbish.' -- Dagna Rams * London School of Economics Review of Books * This beautifully written ethnography captures the daily living and precarious lives of impoverished workers and how they manage to be creative in spite of the harsh economic context. Daily problems permeate these lives, but there is also a celebration of life. This wonderful book is hard to put down, and its subject is new and freshly presented. -- Donna M. Goldstein, author of * Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown * This beautifully written ethnography captures the daily living and precarious lives of impoverished workers and how they manage to be creative in spite of the harsh economic context. Daily problems permeate these lives, but there is also a celebration of life. This wonderful book is hard to put down, and its subject is new and freshly presented. --Donna M. Goldstein, author of Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown Through a narrative built around a constellation of persons and objects, Jardim Gramacho comes alive in this gripping ethnography of garbage-reclaiming work and life in Rio's urban periphery. Kathleen M. Millar resists facile explanations of life in the dump, opting instead to closely listen to her interlocutors' stories, find value in literal interpretations of their words, and take ambivalences and contradictions not as calls for authoritative intervention but as invitations to inhabit the subtleties and complexities of their formidable social world. Reclaiming the Discarded is beautifully written and its argument disrupts truisms that sustain whole fields of inquiry. --Daniella Gandolfo, author of The City at Its Limits: Taboo, Transgression, and Urban Renewal in Lima Author InformationKathleen M. Millar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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