The Disposal of Place

Facing Modernity in the Kitchen-Diner

Bibliographic Data

ID3951207
AuthorsRolland Munro (corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume60
Issue2_suppl
Pages212-231
Publication date2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-954x.12046
OpenAlexW2106667663
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited33

The aim of this paper is to suggest how the material turn in sociology could benefit from a re-theorizing around wider understandings of disposal. The argument is that it is not enough to document how spaces for dwelling are produced and consumed; their building and use also entail a disposal of place that has to account for how the materials that make up a dwelling get arranged and 'placed' as moralities. Taking spaces for living and eating as its object of analysis, each section of this paper examines a different aspect of modernity, bringing the kitchen-diner 'front stage'. Avoiding a ubiquitous conflation of disposal with waste - whereby 'excess' is dismissed out of hand as redundant and non-productive to design - the analysis goes on to suggest how modernity advances its orders through our making the 'belongings' of collective identity more detachable and by our thinning the 'stickiness' of cultural institutions

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Boundary object · Conflation · Epistemology · Identity (music · Modernity · Negotiation · Object (grammar · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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