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of a throwaway society . Drawing on broadly ethnographic examples, the analysis illustrates some of the ways in which the passage of ‘food’ into ‘waste’ arises as a consequence of the ways in which domestic ...
to the nascent throwaway society . However, wartime salvage efforts did not prosper with the removal of the campaign for national survival. Even the economic problems of the late nineteen-forties proved ...
. Consumer society and the throwaway culture had barely got going.26 26 There may be a case that relentless consumption and associated waste are a side-effect of the enormous increase in global trade ...
isotypes that appear on the throwaway packaging of ordinary household items into art, and in doing so transforms them into “a portrait of the society in which the products are to be used” (p. 121 ...
societies . These were not just throwaway remarks. They were precisely what led Genovese to critique Marx’s understanding of the slave South and refer to himself as not a Marxist but a Marxian, one who adopted ...
Abstract Lists, and the practice of listing, provide avenues of insight into Bình, the protagonist in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt (2003). Working as a cook in the infamous Stein Salon in Old ...
emblematic of this gritty survivalist spirit than Hushpuppy. Ever capable, Hushpuppy cooks (catfood) and cares for herself and a posse of domestic animals. Ever resourceful, she lives bare and in the near open ...
and the playing card trade. By the late seventeenth century the playing of card games – usually for money – had become deeply embedded in English society and culture.1 That card playing was so widespread in early ...
—that garbage might hold cultural value; that garbage might evince something beyond humiliation; and that American history in particular is best told through the matter buried in its landfills—have become all ...
Abstract This survey examines the ways in which the Japanese government controls the flow of foreign migrants across and within its borders. It does this in practice by taking steps to admit ...
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