Geographies of Trash

The authors would like to thank the following individuals for their contribution to the project: Ben Hagenhoffer, Christina Kull, Hans Papke, Jonathan Puff, and Aaron Weller as well as Luke Bulman (Thumb) for his graphic collaboration on the research publication. We are also grateful for comments received from Caroline Constant and Amy Kulper.Geographies of TrashAll authorsRania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairyhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2013.817179Published online:14 March 2014Figure 29. Geographies of Trash Installation.Display full sizeFigure 29. Geographies of Trash Installation.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRania GhosnRania Ghosn is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. Her scholarship investigates the urban question through the lens of infrastructure. Rania holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her recent writings have been published in GSD Platform, Thresholds, Bracket, and Perspecta. She is founding editor of the journal New Geographies that focuses on contemporary issues of urbanism and architecture and is editor-in-chief of the issue Landscapes of Energy (2010).El Hadi JazairyEl Hadi Jazairy is Assistant Professor of Architecture at University of Michigan. His research explores the urbanization of spaces of exception. El Hadi has practiced with Xaveer de Geyter architecten and holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His recent essays were published in the Journal of Media Geography, Journal of Cultural Geography, and Topos. He is founding editor of the journal New Geographies and is editor-in-chief of the issue Scales of the Earth (2011).Notes1 Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo (New York: Praeger, 1966), 35-39.2 "Planet Earth by Dawn's Early Light," LIFE Magazine, August 5 1966, 28.3 Martin Melosi, Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), 854 Bruno Latour, What is the Style of Matters of Concern? Two Lectures in Empirical Philosophy, 2005.5 Henri Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).6 David Harvey, Social Justice and the City (London: Blackwell, 1973), 57-60.7 Joshua Reno, Out of Place: Out of Place: Possibility and Pollution at a Transnational Landfill (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 2008), 85-86.8 Kevin Lynch, Wasting Away (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1990).9 Ibid.10 Bruno Latour, "Networks, Societies, Spheres: Reflections of an Actor-network Theorist," International Journal of Communication 5 (2011): 796-810.11 Bruno Latour, "Can we get our materialism back, please?" Isis (2007): 138-142,140.12 The Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research, "Report on Street Cleaning and Refuse Collection," February 1917, 1.13 The Detroit Bureau of Governmental Research, "Memorandum to the Commissioner of Public Works Re Dumping Site on the East River Front," October, 1922.14 "Official notice. This pamphlet has been prepared to furnish the residents of the city of Detroit information concerning the cleaning of alleys" (Detroit: Houghton-Jacobson Printing Co., 1914).15 M. O'Brien, A Crisis of Waste: Understanding the Rubbish Society (London: Routledge, 2008), 31-4.16 Jacques Rancière, "The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics," Aesthetics and its Discontents (Cambridge: Polity, 2009): 109-132

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