Six theses on waste, value, and commons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977513 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 773-783 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2013.800222 |
| OpenAlex | W2015779813 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
| References cited | 11 |
The origins of capitalist value theory lie in transformations of property through enclosure of 'commons-as-waste' and practices of 'commoning' that supported these. These processes, repeated with difference, remain with us. Capitalist value production becomes a structure of necessity in societies that are profit seeking rather than needs oriented; the history of capitalist value is one of the unrelenting attempts to subordinate needs-oriented forms of value production to its accumulative logic. In the process, it continuously casts certain people, places, and conducts as wasteful, superfluous, or residual. In short, capitalist value constantly battles to assert its normative superiority over and autonomy from other forms of value production that interweaves with it. Waste, immanent to capital's becoming-being, poses a jeopardy to capital accumulation: it is, on the one hand, capitalist value-in-waiting and on the other hand, it is an omnipresent logic of dissipation that evades or exceeds capital's dialectic, threatening its legitimacy and existence
Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Commons · Dialectic · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Financial capital · Labor theory of value · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Means of production · Microeconomics · Mode of production · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Profit (economics · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Water Governance and Infrastructure
The international political economy of privatised waste to energy, resistance and public pathways
Visibilizing the invisibilized
Global Entanglements of Recycling Policy and Practice
Incendiary Devices
For a Cooperative “Smart” City Yet to Come
Waste, Social Order, and Physical Disorder in Small-Town India
Salvage urbanization as earthwork
Transformation and the Satisfaction of Work
What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa
The transformation of the Holland Marsh and the dynamics of wetland loss
Infrastructural contact zones
Black livingness and insurgent ecological politics
The inner dimension of sustainability
Time’s carcase”
Data sinks, carbon services
Reading Variegated Dispossession in an Asian Megacity
Recentering land use
Saving for one another
Waste’ to ‘use’? Making of ‘Narela’ in periphery of Delhi metropolis
Density as a politics of value
Resource geographies I
Representing Pollution at the Agrarian–urban Frontier
The State of the Circular Economy
(Re)gaining the urban commons
Urban geographies of waste
Labor Laid Waste
Outside the Wage
Anthropocenic Discards
The Mixed Potential of Salvage Commoning
Countermovement, Neoliberal Platoon, or Re‐Gifting Depot? Understanding Decommodification in US Food Banks
Material, Political, and Biopolitical Dimensions of “Waste” in California Water Law
Working the Waste Commodity Frontier
Regulatory Alchemy
The Duty of Water
An Intimate Inventory of Race and Waste
Zopilotes, Alacranes, y Hormigas (Vultures, Scorpions, and Ants)
Early years of East India Company rule in Chittagong
Visualizing new political ecologies
Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables
Historicising sanitation work
The patchwork city
Property, waste, and the “unnecessary hardship” of land use planning in Winnipeg, Canada
Primary Materials
Geographies of development III
From Fibre Basket to Fibre Boiler
Globalizing capitalism's raggedy fringes
Southern Excrementalism
Geographies of waste
Values in place; A value-oriented approach toward sustainable place-shaping
A New Regime of Dispossession in Neo-Liberal India? Wind Energy, Hindutva, and Land Politics in Western Gujarat
The violence and promise of infrastructural discards
The monster has landed
Solar Capitalism
Valued waste/wasted value
The Monster 'Within
Urban commoning practices in the repair movement
Accumulation by appropriation
Housewives and maids
The Unfixed State of Unfixed Land
Perceptions of atmosphere
Urban commons to private property
Plastic monsters
The Anthropocene stinks! Odor, affect, and the entangled politics of livestock waste in a rural Iowa watershed
Wind parks in post-crisis Greece
Wasting CO2and the Clean Development Mechanism
Disappearance, emergence, and appearance
The production of urban commons through alternative food practices
Discardscapes of fashion
Contingent resistance
Between Toxics and Gold
Fugitive Dust
Plugging the Pipeline
Rendering, waste disposal and the production of value
Waste and Waste Management
Just Desserts
Re-inventing the commons
Waste work and the dialectics of precarity in urban Ghana
African Studies Keyword
| Unique citing works | 78 |
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| Citations per year | 6,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |