Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana by Little, Peter C.
Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana by Little, Peter C.

Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana

Global trade in electronic waste (e-waste) has led to various waste management challenges and many regions of...
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Author: Peter C. Little
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Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana by Little, Peter C.

Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana

$114.54
Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana by Little, Peter C.

Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana

$114.54
Author: Peter C. Little
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Global trade in electronic waste (e-waste) has led to various waste management challenges and many regions of the Global South have suffered the toxic consequences. In Burning Matters, Peter C. Little explores the complex cultural, economic, and environmental health politics of e-waste work in
Ghana. He brings to light the lived experiences of Ghana's e-waste workers, as they navigate the health, social, and economic challenges of highly toxic e-waste labor. In particular, Little engages the experiences of e-waste workers who burn bundles of electrical cables to extract copper, a practice
that contaminates bodies and the urban environment and which has attracted international organizations seeking to mitigate risk and find quick tech solutions to this highly toxic e-waste work. A nuanced perspective on e-waste burning and environmental politics in Africa at a time when global
e-waste generation and trade is at an all-time high, Burning Matters contends that e-waste interventions devoid of ethnographic perspective and knowledge risk downplaying the vibrant complexities of e-waste itself and the matters of social life and labor that matter most to Ghana's e-waste workers.

Author: Peter C. Little
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/09/2021
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.19w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780190934552

About the Author

Peter C. Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College. He is author of Toxic Town: IBM, Pollution, and Industrial Risks (2014).

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