Peering through loopholes, tracing conversions: remapping the transborder trade in electronic waste

Kirby, Peter Wynn; Lora‐Wainwright, Anna

doi:10.1111/area.12166

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“…Some materials could be collected freely while others were still controlled under the planned economy. Migrant workers, as described in the fragment above, started to scavenge waste materials in the 1980s (Kirby & Lora-Wainwright, 2015), and were responsible for a new appreciation that transformed the social ontology of waste into the valuable resource from which they are now separated. This account underlines the importance of both narrative and legislation in socially constructing traditional recycling as outside the dominant development regime (Schulz, 2015).…”

Section: The Enclosure Of the "Waste Commons"mentioning

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The enclosure of “waste land”: Rethinking informality and dispossession

Inverardi-Ferri

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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The paper contributes to the recent geographical debates on the connection between dispossession and informality. Existing scholarship recognises that informality is an integral part of capitalism. Arguments reinforcing the formal–informal dichotomy dominate research on processes of dispossession. Drawing on analyses of the struggle of waste recyclers in Beijing, this paper conceptualises informal activities in relation to circuits of capital. It contends that theories of dispossession need to be extended in order to analyse processes of enclosure in the informal economy. The conclusion discusses the potential of reconceptualising dispossession as a variegated process operating both outside and within the capitalist space.

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Section: The Enclosure Of the "Waste Commons"mentioning

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The enclosure of “waste land”: Rethinking informality and dispossession

Inverardi-Ferri

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…This will enable the informal sector to collect, separate and perform low-level recycling while allowing the formal sector to perform high-level recycling, thus promoting efficiency and harmony in the supply chain [57]. Other scholars lament using terms such as scavenging and informal as pessimistic, biased, and wrongly portraying the e-waste phenomenon [58].…”

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The Conundrum: Transforming African E-waste Landfills to Urban Mines

Maphosa,

Mashau

2023

Advances and Challenges in Hazardous Waste Management

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The amount of discarded electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), popularly known as e-waste, is rising alarmingly and drawing immediate attention from stakeholders. Governments in emerging economies support importing second-hand EEE to bridge the digital divide and allow communities to access the information superhighway. E-waste contains toxic elements deleterious to the environment and human health. Simultaneously, e-waste contains rare earth minerals that generate USD65 billion in revenue annually through recycling. Urban mining is reclaiming minerals from anthropogenic materials, reducing the extraction of virgin minerals facing depletion and with some sourced from unstable regions and conflict zones. The unidirectional flow of e-waste into Africa from the developed world is viewed as the re-colonisation and the carbonisation divide. Due to a lack of appropriate infrastructure and policies and low knowledge levels in developing countries, the management of e-waste is left to the informal sector, which uses rudimentary tools to extract rare earth metals. This chapter highlights the contentious definition of e-waste, its movement from the Global North, and its epidemiological and environmental impact. It advocates for setting policies and infrastructure to turn landfills and dumpsites into urban mines. This chapter also recommends that developing countries monitor the state of EEE imports and transform informal to formal recycling supported by coordinated collection and storage centres.

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Investigations into the transition toward an established e-waste management system in China: Empirical evidence from Guangdong and Shaanxi

Schneider

Zeng

2022

Current Research in Environmental Sustainability

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Peering through loopholes, tracing conversions: remapping the transborder trade in electronic waste

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

The enclosure of “waste land”: Rethinking informality and dispossession

The enclosure of “waste land”: Rethinking informality and dispossession

The Conundrum: Transforming African E-waste Landfills to Urban Mines

Investigations into the transition toward an established e-waste management system in China: Empirical evidence from Guangdong and Shaanxi

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