Documenting Jardim Gramacho: Estamira (2004) and Waste Land (2009)

McKay, Micah

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“…Rather than rebuild the policy network theory, in this research, a research agenda to engage different theoretical perspectives in future work was proposed. Duque de Caxias (hereinafter Caxias) was selected as a case study for its internationally renowned history of waste policies [28] which has already been the subject of documentaries [52], such as "Waste Land", from the artist Viz Muniz. Caxias was hosted in the neighbourhood of Jardim Gramacho, a peripheral area bordering Guanabara Bay, for almost 35 years, from 1976 up to 2012, the largest illegal landfill in Latin America.…”

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In, Out or Beyond? Waste Pickers and Policy Networks: A Story from Jardim Gramacho (Rio de Janeiro)

Maiello¹

2022

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As circularity is momentous, waste-picker communities all around the world are getting noticed. Brazil is at the forefront of waste-picker community inclusion, recognizing, by law, waste-pickers as professionals who must be part of waste management. This level of institutionalization is the result of a political struggle within the national waste policy network over more than twenty years. Understanding these political relations is key to recognising the role of waste-pickers and making the case for justice in the circularity discourse and practices. This research presents the result of an extended case study of over seven years duration conducted by the author on the community of Jardim Gramacho, in the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region. Building upon the policy network theory, this paper first maps the policy community and the issue network of waste governance. Second, through a thematic analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews, core themes are identified. These themes depict the waste-picker community beyond a paternalistic reading recognizing their agency and identifying a plurality of roles waste-pickers are playing in the waste policy community, among them the role of institutional stewards. In the conclusion, a research agenda is outlined, highlighting the need for transdisciplinarity in doing research with waste-pickers.

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In, Out or Beyond? Waste Pickers and Policy Networks: A Story from Jardim Gramacho (Rio de Janeiro)

Maiello¹

2022

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Garbage as Racialization

Millar¹

2020

Anthropology and Humanism

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SummaryThis essay examines parallels between the representation of garbage and the racialized production of the category of the human. In recent years, waste has become a ubiquitous metaphor for understanding the lives of the jobless poor, perceived as discarded by global capitalism and thereby rendered “disposable life.” The essay questions the conflation of waste with abjection through an ethnographic analysis of a film and art project produced on a garbage dump in Rio de Janeiro.

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Documenting Jardim Gramacho: Estamira (2004) and Waste Land (2009)

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In, Out or Beyond? Waste Pickers and Policy Networks: A Story from Jardim Gramacho (Rio de Janeiro)

In, Out or Beyond? Waste Pickers and Policy Networks: A Story from Jardim Gramacho (Rio de Janeiro)

Garbage as Racialization

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