Peter Wynn Kirby
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 180759 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Wynn Kirby |
| NOMBRES | Peter Wynn |
| APELLIDO | Kirby |
| FIRMA | KIRBY P W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Radiant scars
The triple-disasters on and after 3.11 triggered devastation of a messy, intimate, personal kind that confounds centrally organized, large-scale renewal. In time, a whole substrate of human suffering became effectively ignored and interred by the armada of cranes, backhoes, dump trucks, and bulldozers that descended on Japan’s battered coastline to restore ‘normalcy’. Japan’s focus on economic rather than emotional reconstruction—not atypical for…
Waste
Reviewed by: Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan by Eiko Maruko Siniawer Peter Wynn Kirby (bio) Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan. By Eiko Maruko Siniawer. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 2018. x, 398 pages. $49.95, cloth; $24.99, E-book. Eiko Maruko Siniawer's Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan is an ambitious book on a fascinating topic but is undermined by problems in its conception and, to some degree, its execution. In a brief introduction that giv…
Materialities meet the mangle
Slow burn
Amid the radioactive fallout of the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and across what would come to be known as the Exclusion Zone, Japanese members of the nuclear lobby laboured to contain the political fallout of the Fukushima disaster. This article scrutinizes the profuse rhetoric over recycling as mobilized by nuclear boosters and the wider operations of circularity in waste management in Japan. Japanese leant heavily on th…
Domenig, Aya. The day the sun fell. DVD/PAL, 78 minutes, colour. London
Anthropological approaches to energy
Energy—its production, its consumption, its very conception and articulation—circulates at the core of human endeavor, and yet as a topic of anthropological scrutiny it has been relatively overlooked until recently. This scholarly neglect is both puzzling and regrettable, as the value of an anthropological approach to energy is its rigorous focus on the sociocultural conditions of energy, as well as attention to the dizzying range of phenomena th…
Avatars des déchets nucléaires japonais
La catastrophe du tsunami qui a frappé le Japon en 2011 a occasionné un vaste champ d'expérimentation - non désiré - dans le domaine de la gestion des déchets. Le phénomène sismique et l'accident nucléaire de Fukushima Daiichi qu'il a entraîné ont créé une rupture hélas imprévue en matière de politique nucléaire, rupture qui a révélé la gestion laxiste et problématique des déchets nucléaires du pays, ainsi que des anomalies apparaissant dès le dé…
Japan Copes with Calamity
Journal Article Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011 Get access Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011 , by Tom Gill , Brigitte Steger and David H. Slater (eds.). Oxford and Bern : Peter Lang , 2013 , 316 pp., €50.00 (ISBN 978-3-0343-0922-6 ) Peter Wynn KIRBY Peter Wynn KIRBY University of Oxford Search for other wor…
Exporting harm, scavenging value
Alternately cherished as a valuable resource and reviled as toxic and/or worthless detritus, depending on one's cultural vantage, e‐waste comprises the scratched, dented, tarnished flipside of the lucrative consumer electronics industry. This article focuses attention on flows of e‐waste from J apan to E ast A sia, scrutinising channels of production, consumption, reuse and conversion. First, the authors interpret the rhetoric of recycling and su…
Peering through loopholes, tracing conversions
Interdisciplinary studies of ‘e-waste’ (i.e. electronic waste and residues, also known as WEEE) penetrate to the heart of complex issues that drive present-day human geography: contested mappings; socio-material transformations; ‘epistemic murk’ (Taussig 1987, 127) in field settings; human and non-human assemblages; elite and marginal ethnographic perspectives; varying reckonings of risk and value; policed and permeable borders; and interpretive …
Three-Dimensional Reading
A malnourished subaltern, confined for years in a tiny subterranean capsule, emerges from the bowels of a vertiginous twenty-ninth-century tower city into sunlight to apotheose into a new form of sentient being. A wealthy young aesthete sinks his vast fortune into a sprawling metatheater of myriad gardens, lavish architectural works, and costumed tableaux and orgies, ultimately sacrificing himself for his work in a decadent “golden death.” A biza…
Exporting harm, scavenging value
Alternately cherished as a valuable resource and reviled as toxic and/or worthless detritus, depending on one's cultural vantage, e‐waste comprises the scratched, dented, tarnished flipside of the lucrative consumer electronics industry. This article focuses attention on flows of e‐waste from J apan to E ast A sia, scrutinising channels of production, consumption, reuse and conversion. First, the authors interpret the rhetoric of recycling and su…
Peering through loopholes, tracing conversions
Interdisciplinary studies of ‘e-waste’ (i.e. electronic waste and residues, also known as WEEE) penetrate to the heart of complex issues that drive present-day human geography: contested mappings; socio-material transformations; ‘epistemic murk’ (Taussig 1987, 127) in field settings; human and non-human assemblages; elite and marginal ethnographic perspectives; varying reckonings of risk and value; policed and permeable borders; and interpretive …
Materialities meet the mangle
Three-Dimensional Reading
A malnourished subaltern, confined for years in a tiny subterranean capsule, emerges from the bowels of a vertiginous twenty-ninth-century tower city into sunlight to apotheose into a new form of sentient being. A wealthy young aesthete sinks his vast fortune into a sprawling metatheater of myriad gardens, lavish architectural works, and costumed tableaux and orgies, ultimately sacrificing himself for his work in a decadent “golden death.” A biza…
Japan Copes with Calamity
Journal Article Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011 Get access Japan Copes with Calamity: Ethnographies of the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disasters of March 2011 , by Tom Gill , Brigitte Steger and David H. Slater (eds.). Oxford and Bern : Peter Lang , 2013 , 316 pp., €50.00 (ISBN 978-3-0343-0922-6 ) Peter Wynn KIRBY Peter Wynn KIRBY University of Oxford Search for other wor…
Exporting harm, scavenging value
Alternately cherished as a valuable resource and reviled as toxic and/or worthless detritus, depending on one's cultural vantage, e‐waste comprises the scratched, dented, tarnished flipside of the lucrative consumer electronics industry. This article focuses attention on flows of e‐waste from J apan to E ast A sia, scrutinising channels of production, consumption, reuse and conversion. First, the authors interpret the rhetoric of recycling and su…
Peering through loopholes, tracing conversions
Interdisciplinary studies of ‘e-waste’ (i.e. electronic waste and residues, also known as WEEE) penetrate to the heart of complex issues that drive present-day human geography: contested mappings; socio-material transformations; ‘epistemic murk’ (Taussig 1987, 127) in field settings; human and non-human assemblages; elite and marginal ethnographic perspectives; varying reckonings of risk and value; policed and permeable borders; and interpretive …
Anthropological approaches to energy
Energy—its production, its consumption, its very conception and articulation—circulates at the core of human endeavor, and yet as a topic of anthropological scrutiny it has been relatively overlooked until recently. This scholarly neglect is both puzzling and regrettable, as the value of an anthropological approach to energy is its rigorous focus on the sociocultural conditions of energy, as well as attention to the dizzying range of phenomena th…
Avatars des déchets nucléaires japonais
La catastrophe du tsunami qui a frappé le Japon en 2011 a occasionné un vaste champ d'expérimentation - non désiré - dans le domaine de la gestion des déchets. Le phénomène sismique et l'accident nucléaire de Fukushima Daiichi qu'il a entraîné ont créé une rupture hélas imprévue en matière de politique nucléaire, rupture qui a révélé la gestion laxiste et problématique des déchets nucléaires du pays, ainsi que des anomalies apparaissant dès le dé…
Domenig, Aya. The day the sun fell. DVD/PAL, 78 minutes, colour. London
Materialities meet the mangle
Slow burn
Amid the radioactive fallout of the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and across what would come to be known as the Exclusion Zone, Japanese members of the nuclear lobby laboured to contain the political fallout of the Fukushima disaster. This article scrutinizes the profuse rhetoric over recycling as mobilized by nuclear boosters and the wider operations of circularity in waste management in Japan. Japanese leant heavily on th…
Waste
Reviewed by: Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan by Eiko Maruko Siniawer Peter Wynn Kirby (bio) Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan. By Eiko Maruko Siniawer. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 2018. x, 398 pages. $49.95, cloth; $24.99, E-book. Eiko Maruko Siniawer's Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan is an ambitious book on a fascinating topic but is undermined by problems in its conception and, to some degree, its execution. In a brief introduction that giv…
Radiant scars
The triple-disasters on and after 3.11 triggered devastation of a messy, intimate, personal kind that confounds centrally organized, large-scale renewal. In time, a whole substrate of human suffering became effectively ignored and interred by the armada of cranes, backhoes, dump trucks, and bulldozers that descended on Japan’s battered coastline to restore ‘normalcy’. Japan’s focus on economic rather than emotional reconstruction—not atypical for…
History (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Geography (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Art history (2 obras) · Business (2 obras)