Carl A Zimring
Biographic Data
| ID | 522200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl A Zimring |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl A |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimring |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMRING C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pratt Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction: The Waste of Conflict. The Conflicts of Waste
Throughout human history, people have always produced waste, but during the last century, this has shown explosive growth. Globally, a combination of rising incomes, urbanization, the development of new, cheap materials, and changing lifestyles have driven the growth of products that were designed to be used for only limited periods of time producing a totally unprecedented amount and variety of waste. However, this development has not affected a…
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where peopl…
A Sustainable City? Nature, Land, and Justice in Chicago
Moving from Kaiser to aluminum recycling
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jeffer…
Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle
Susanna Rankin Bohme's history of an environmental hazard in the Americas between 1951 and 2007 builds upon an interdisciplinary approach to environmental justice issues. In the thirty years since publication of the 1987 Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States study linking race to residence near hazardous waste facilities, historians have provided context for the environmental justice movement, with studies of polluted communities and protest…
The Happiest of Finds: William L. Rathje's Influence on the Field of Discard Studies
The study of waste has many roots. For more than half a century, anthropologists, historians, and policy analysts have attempted to understand what, how, and why societies dispose of materials deemed worthless or hazardous. Historical approaches to discard studies include analyses of the creation of industrial wastes, the development of infrastructures such as landfills and wastewater treatment facilities, and the emergence of formal and informal…
Clean and white: A history of environmental racism in the United States
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate," he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where peopl…
The Complex Environmental Legacy of the Automobile Shredder
The automobile shredder originated in Texas scrapyards in the 1950s and became one of the most important tools of scrap recycling industries in the second half of the twentieth century. A technological response to the accumulation of disposed automobiles in postwar America, the shredder was lauded by engineers, environmental groups, and industry alike for efficiently reclaiming ferrous scrap metal for industry while simultaneously reducing visibl…
Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment
Book Review| November 01 2005 Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment Carl Zimring Carl Zimring Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2005) 27 (4): 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.118 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Too…
Dirty Work: How Hygiene and Xenophobia Marginalized the American Waste Trades, 1870–1930
AT THE BEGINNING of the twenty-first century, Americans think recycling is a good, even moral behavior. We all would like to see more reuse of things, tempering our rampant consumption and reducing the amount of garbage we throw into landfills and incinerators. Recycling now means leaving a cleaner, better planet to our children. Yet even today, most of us took down on the actual work of recycling, displaying little respect for the people who han…
Dirty Work: How Hygiene and Xenophobia Marginalized the American Waste Trades, 1870–1930
AT THE BEGINNING of the twenty-first century, Americans think recycling is a good, even moral behavior. We all would like to see more reuse of things, tempering our rampant consumption and reducing the amount of garbage we throw into landfills and incinerators. Recycling now means leaving a cleaner, better planet to our children. Yet even today, most of us took down on the actual work of recycling, displaying little respect for the people who han…
Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment
Book Review| November 01 2005 Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment Carl Zimring Carl Zimring Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2005) 27 (4): 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.118 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Too…
The Complex Environmental Legacy of the Automobile Shredder
The automobile shredder originated in Texas scrapyards in the 1950s and became one of the most important tools of scrap recycling industries in the second half of the twentieth century. A technological response to the accumulation of disposed automobiles in postwar America, the shredder was lauded by engineers, environmental groups, and industry alike for efficiently reclaiming ferrous scrap metal for industry while simultaneously reducing visibl…
Dirty Work: How Hygiene and Xenophobia Marginalized the American Waste Trades, 1870–1930
AT THE BEGINNING of the twenty-first century, Americans think recycling is a good, even moral behavior. We all would like to see more reuse of things, tempering our rampant consumption and reducing the amount of garbage we throw into landfills and incinerators. Recycling now means leaving a cleaner, better planet to our children. Yet even today, most of us took down on the actual work of recycling, displaying little respect for the people who han…
Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment
Book Review| November 01 2005 Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment Carl Zimring Carl Zimring Oberlin College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2005) 27 (4): 118–120. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.118 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Too…
The Complex Environmental Legacy of the Automobile Shredder
The automobile shredder originated in Texas scrapyards in the 1950s and became one of the most important tools of scrap recycling industries in the second half of the twentieth century. A technological response to the accumulation of disposed automobiles in postwar America, the shredder was lauded by engineers, environmental groups, and industry alike for efficiently reclaiming ferrous scrap metal for industry while simultaneously reducing visibl…
The Happiest of Finds: William L. Rathje's Influence on the Field of Discard Studies
The study of waste has many roots. For more than half a century, anthropologists, historians, and policy analysts have attempted to understand what, how, and why societies dispose of materials deemed worthless or hazardous. Historical approaches to discard studies include analyses of the creation of industrial wastes, the development of infrastructures such as landfills and wastewater treatment facilities, and the emergence of formal and informal…
Clean and white: A history of environmental racism in the United States
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate," he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where peopl…
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
Clean and White offers a history of environmental racism in the United States focusing on constructions of race and hygiene When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jeffer…
Toxic Injustice: A Transnational History of Exposure and Struggle
Susanna Rankin Bohme's history of an environmental hazard in the Americas between 1951 and 2007 builds upon an interdisciplinary approach to environmental justice issues. In the thirty years since publication of the 1987 Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States study linking race to residence near hazardous waste facilities, historians have provided context for the environmental justice movement, with studies of polluted communities and protest…
Moving from Kaiser to aluminum recycling
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him “clean and articulate,” he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where peopl…
A Sustainable City? Nature, Land, and Justice in Chicago
Introduction: The Waste of Conflict. The Conflicts of Waste
Throughout human history, people have always produced waste, but during the last century, this has shown explosive growth. Globally, a combination of rising incomes, urbanization, the development of new, cheap materials, and changing lifestyles have driven the growth of products that were designed to be used for only limited periods of time producing a totally unprecedented amount and variety of waste. However, this development has not affected a…
Political science (7 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Environmental justice (3 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (3 works) · Hygiene (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Racism (3 works)