Creating Waste and Resisting Recovery

Contested Practices and Metaphors in Post-neoliberal Argentina

Bibliographic Data

ID7768950
AuthorsPatrick O''Hare (0000-0003-2535-2881, University of St Andrews, corresponding author), Patrick O’hare (University of St Andrews)
Year2023
Volume88
Issue3
Pages512-532
Publication date2023-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2020.1799052
OpenAlexW3046724462
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited30

This article focuses on a ‘register of recovery’ that emerged in post-crisis and post-neoliberal Argentina as a way of imagining and framing an increasingly disparate collection of persons, things, and ideas, from young workers, to green space, to hose pipes. Drawing on ethnography conducted at the NuevaMente recycling cooperative in Morón, Greater Buenos Aires, the article attends to the material implications stemming from the adoption of the rather hopeful concept of recovery, and the counter-models proposed by young workers, who view the workplace as a space not of cathartic recovery, but of temporary care and respite from the complications of family life. By emphasising the recovery of workers into the formal economy, their rich labour histories are deliberately unknown, while a focus on the recoverability of things ignores not only their lack of value, but also their potential hazardousness

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Framing (construction · Respite care · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Medicine · Political Economy and Marxism

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