Waste/Value
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Gidwani, Vinay

doi:10.1002/9781118384497.ch17

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“…Waste is often taken to be the endpoint of economic life, value's definitive other, or the archetypal externality (Gidwani ; Gille ; Moore ). Although it is commonplace to extract additional value from end‐of‐life goods through recycling or recovery, this is generally not reflected in the mechanisms of product design, pricing and market regulation.…”

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Circling the economy: resource‐making and marketization in EU electronic waste policy

Kama

2014

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This article investigates the reinvention of electrical and electronic waste as a resource in the context of the EU market economy. It argues that the European regulatory framework is underpinned by a particular vision of 'circular economy' that both internalises e-waste within formal economic circuits and confines its exchange to the territory of the single market. Yet the boundaries of this economic regime continue to be highly permeable, as the terminus of two thirds of the products placed on the market remains unaccounted for, said to dissipate via various loopholes in waste collection and treatment. Based on analysis of the policy rationale and praxis, the article relates this failure to the fact that e-waste is identified in ambiguous terms as comprising both socio-ecological risk and economic value, or what is termed here the 'logic of hazard' and the 'logic of resource' . The making of resources from potentially hazardous materials hinges on the extent to which incremental quantities of end-of-life equipment can be translated into a uniform tradable good, the movements of which are documented, calculated and monitored through standard methods. The two logics are complementary insofar as they legitimise the spatial enclosure of e-waste trade, but they can also come into conflict, since the double identity of e-waste complicates the reframing of market boundaries and generates different objects of regulation. The case study advances geographical research on materials and 'marketization' , enabling the materiality of e-waste to be conceptualised as both a product of and obstacle to the territorial b/ordering of the market.

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Circling the economy: resource‐making and marketization in EU electronic waste policy

Kama

2014

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“…This concept of discursively framing resources as waste in order to justify enclosure has been applied to historic studies of the English commons (Goldstein 2012), contemporary cases of land grabbing and "wastelands" in India (Baka 2013(Baka , 2014, and studies of trash pickers who rely upon waste for their livelihoods (Gidwani 2013). In this perspective, waste is conceptualized as an integral and relational part of society and political economy, the "political other of capitalist 'value'" (Gidwani andReddy 2011:1625).…”

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“…The formulation of underdeveloped water as waste is examined in Gidwani and Reddy's (2011) history of waste as the flip side of value. They describe how modern irrigation systems in India were engineered in order to control the "wastefulness" of nature, and explain that the terminology of "duty" captures the notion of "putting water to work" (Gidwani andReddy 2011:1634) to meet both economic and moral imperatives. These terms simultaneously convey the value water holds as a finite natural resource, the latent potential of turning surplus into economic profit, and the moral imperative to control nature.…”

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Material, Political, and Biopolitical Dimensions of “Waste” in California Water Law

Cantor

2017

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California's state constitution prohibits the “wasteful” use of water; however, waste is subjective and context dependent. This paper considers political, biopolitical, and material dimensions of waste, focusing on the role of legal processes and institutions. The paper examines a case involving legal accusations of “waste and unreasonable use” of water by the Imperial Irrigation District in Imperial County, California. The determination that water was being “wasted” justified the transfer of water from agricultural to urban areas. However, defining these flows of water as a waste neglected water's complexity and relationality, and the enclosure of a “paracommons” threatens to bring about negative environmental and public health consequences. The paper shows that the project of discursively labeling certain material resource flows as waste and re‐allocating these resources to correct this moral and economic failure relies upon legal processes, and carries political and biopolitical implications.

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“…It has long been recognized that waste making, value making and space making are mutually constitutive processes (e.g., Douglas, 1966;Thompson, 1979;Lynch, 1990;Gille, 2007;Gidwani, 2012;Goldstein, 2013). Geographers interested in the territorialization of waste and other externalities (e.g., Gregson et al, 2012;Kama, 2015) have recently drawn on the geographies of marketization literature (e.g., Berndt & Boeckler, 2010;Christophers, 2014b) to explicate the building of spatially confined markets for the trade and management of waste and its retransformation into value.…”

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A crack in the facade? Situating Singapore in global flows of electronic waste

Lepawsky

Connolly

2016

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Singapore is alleged to be a key node in global flows of e-waste prohibited under the Basel Convention. We combine a close reading of the Convention and related documents with findings from nonparticipant observation of and interviews with Singapore-based traders of discarded electronics. The case offers both important conceptual and empirical findings for future studies of territory in market-making activity. Conceptually, our research suggests that it may be analytically useful in such studies to conceptualize territory without presupposing that it is generated as a result of separate domains or logics such as 'the political' or 'the economic'. Empirically, we find that the regulatory framework of the Convention, combined with the action of traders based in Singapore, generates a territorialization of the city-state such that it operates as a crack in the regulatory edifice of the Convention, even as Singapore lawfully fulfils its obligations to it. Moreover, allegations premised on the role of Singapore as a facilitator of global e-waste dumping misrepresent its crucial role as a conduit of electronic equipment for the significant reuse markets elsewhere in Southeast Asia and beyond. The case indicates that the allegations against Singapore hinge on the city-state being territorialized as a 'developing country'.

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Waste/Value ¹

Cited by 36 publications

References 13 publications

Circling the economy: resource‐making and marketization in EU electronic waste policy

Circling the economy: resource‐making and marketization in EU electronic waste policy

Material, Political, and Biopolitical Dimensions of “Waste” in California Water Law

A crack in the facade? Situating Singapore in global flows of electronic waste

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Cited by 36 publications

References 13 publications

Circling the economy: resource‐making and marketization in EU electronic waste policy

Circling the economy: resource‐making and marketization in EU electronic waste policy

Material, Political, and Biopolitical Dimensions of “Waste” in California Water Law

A crack in the facade? Situating Singapore in global flows of electronic waste

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