Vol. 1 No. 1 (2018)
Editorial

Of Fish Feces, Shamanic Bowls and Chimpanzee Scraps: Extension vs Precision in the Concept of Waste

Zsuzsa Gille
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Published 2018-07-19

Keywords

  • Hannah Arendt,
  • Labor,
  • Waste,
  • Discard Studies,
  • Materiality

How to Cite

Gille, Z. (2018). Of Fish Feces, Shamanic Bowls and Chimpanzee Scraps: Extension vs Precision in the Concept of Waste. Worldwide Waste, 1(1), 2. https://doi.org/10.5334/wwwj.22

Abstract

Joshua Reno’s article is an inspiring call-out to Discard Studies. I thank him for the provocation and hope he takes my response in the spirit of a friendly polemic between fellow travelers in waste studies—which is what we are.