Understanding the unique challenges facing vulnerable communities necessitates a
scholarly approach that is profoundly embedded in the ethnographic tradition. Undertaking …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the role and practices of
informal waste pickers and the implications for waste management policy in urban contexts …

The built environment significantly contributes to current socioenvironmental crises,
necessitating systemic change. Circularity and the commons are re-emerging as potential …

This article explores the usefulness of the notion of alterity in waste management through a
case study of Traperos de Emaús-Navarra, a bulky waste collection and recovery initiative in …

This dissertation centres on Montevideo's political and moral economy of discards as
experienced through the lives and labour of waste-pickers around Uruguay's largest landfill …

The landscape of global economies of recycling has rapidly changed over the early 21st
century. Increasingly, policy and economic and scholarly attention on environmental …

El libro que tienes en tus manos nace del esfuerzo por comprender a las personas que
sobreviven de su trabajo con el desecho producido como consecuencia de actividades de …

After being selected as a UNESCO Global Geopark in 2015 and promoted as an ecotourism
area, Nglanggeran Village in the Gunungsewu area can attract as many as 300,000 …

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Seit ihrer Gründung ist die Bundesrepublik faktisch ein
Einwanderungsland, das besonders durch die sogenannten ‚Gastarbeiter 'in den 1950er …

This thesis explores the everyday making and thinking of the peri-urban. The condition of the
peri-urban is a troubled one, caught between uneven spatial development, rapid land use …