Contained Redistribution
The Technopolitics of Plastic Burning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tridibesh Dey (0000-0001-5624-9436, Aarhus University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 197-227 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01622439231216813 |
| OpenAlex | W4389791076 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 55 |
Plastic stands for designed materials, chemically synthesized for massive use in industry and commerce. As plastic production continues to accelerate, plastic waste is incinerated, globally, as a preferred-though contested-technology for disposal. Burning plastic can be harmful; many associated chemicals, including those produced by burning certain plastics, are potentially toxic. They accumulate in bio-geological environments, known to entail serious health effects in humans for generations. Thus, matters of containment-emission filtration, limiting exposure, spatial localization, and so on-assume technopolitical significance
Forensic engineering · Incineration · Limiting · Plastic Waste · Political science · Waste management · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Science · Law · Microplastics and Plastic Pollution · Recycling and Waste Management Techniques · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Fluid Drugs
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Chemical Kinship
Breathing Fire into Landscapes that Burn
Burning Wet Waste
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Plastic Mut(e)ability
Slow violence and toxic geographies
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes
Reflections of an Unrepentant Plastiphobe
Beyond the Abject
Plain facts
Clean India! Symbols, Policies and Tensions
Contesting Urban Metabolism
A new waste and energy nexus? Rethinking the modernisation of waste services in Delhi
The work of waste
Beyond the pollution haven hypothesis
Burning Matters
Purity and Danger
Covid-19 as method
The politics of care in technoscience
Unsettling care
Matters of care in technoscience
Toxic politics
Opening Up Containment
Perceptions of atmosphere
Efficiency in waste collection markets
Sewerage's Reproduction of Caste
An Eternal Flame
The Body Multiple
Fire normativities
Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations
Attuning to the Chemosphere
Raven, Dog, Human
Redefining pollution and action
Event
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
The Anthropology of Plastics
Ontological Politics. A Word and Some Questions
Anthropology at the bottom of the pyramid
Plastic possibilities
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
Hospitals as factories of medical garbage
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |