That's What Fishers Do Now, We Collect Rubbish

The Making of Environmental Subjects in A Human-Disturbed Environment in Rio de Janeiro

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2143003
AutoresLuciana Lang (0000-0002-7598-6949, Manchester University, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen85
Número2
Páginas371-392
Fecha de publicación2020-03-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2019.1604557
OpenAlexW2937721370
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas18

This paper explores the productive potential of waste and the emergence of environmental subjects in an urban fishing community, which I call The Colony, in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The shift to an environmental form of governance in the 1990s transformed its surrounding mangrove swamp into a product of policies and changed people's perception of material waste. If on the one hand discarded materials made it almost impossible for traditional fishers to maintain their livelihoods, on the other, undesirable outcomes of development enabled survival in capitalist ruins. Waste is not only a big bone of contention; it is a political stake with social, economic and environmental implications. In the process, waste is re-socialised and discourses are re-clad according to personal, ideological and political interests. I argue that the afterlife of waste is found in its potential productivity, in particular, in its capacity to produce relations

Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Water Governance and Infrastructure