Call for Papers: The Ethics of Rubbish: Environmental Politics, Citizenship and Urban Management
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), New York, 2012
Co-Organizers: Tovi Fenster (Tel Aviv University) and Lynn Staeheli (Durham University)
Rubbish as domestic, industrial , environmental as personal, community or national is gaining a growing interest in public, political and international discourses. Following some existing research the aim of this session is to re-define some substantive issues such as what is rubbish? Whose rubbish do we talk about? Whose responsibility? These are significant questions in particular regarding issues such as equal distribution, collection and disposal of rubbish and the focus on the end line of consumption as rubbish. The starting point of this session is the identification of rubbish as physical or material but other insightful definitions and researches are welcomed.
This session welcomes empirically- and conceptually-focused papers that employ qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodologies as well as theoretical contributions which engage issues of rubbish as consumption and production oriented , the ethics involved in its existence and how they are manifested in environmental politics, citizenship and urban management.
We encourage submissions that explore topics such as:
-The feminist perspectives of rubbish ethics (production and consumption)
- The ethics of equal distribution, collection and disposal
- Value judgment and rubbish
- Conflicts in various scales on rubbish
-Cultural, ethnic and nationalized constructions of rubbish
