By Jennifer Gabrys
From foodstuff punnets to charge cards, plastic enables all the things of our day-by-day lives. It has turn into critical to approaches of latest socio-material dwelling. Universalised and abstracted, it's always handled because the passive item of political deliberations, or a challenging fabric not easy human administration. yet in what methods may possibly a 'politics of plastics' take care of either its particular manifestation specifically artefacts and occasions, and its complicated dispersed heterogeneity?
Accumulation
explores the energy and complexity of plastic. This interdisciplinary assortment makes a speciality of how the presence and recalcitrance of plastic unearths the relational exchanges throughout human and artificial materialities. It captures multiplicity via enticing with the processual materialities or plasticity of plastic. via a chain of themed essays on plastic materialities, plastic economies, plastic our bodies and new articulations of plastic, the editors and bankruptcy authors learn particular features of plastic in motion. How are a number of plastic realities enacted? What are their effects?
This publication might be of curiosity to scholars and students of sociology, human and cultural geography, environmental reports, intake reviews, technological know-how and know-how reports, layout, and political theory.
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