Recycling Modernity: Waste and Environmental History

摘要: In this article, I discuss some of the questions that arise for environmental historians from recent historical and theoretical studies waste. This article is not an attempt to methodically review entire corpus work on waste within social sciences humanities. Rather seek draw attention ways in which constitutes important problem history particular. The four sections. first two deal with conceptual approaches are presently popular draws analytical distinction between dirt, terms often collapsed into one another but which, when kept distinct, can do more useful work. third fourth sections present treatments waste, their capacities limitations, before mark out possible take seriously distinctiveness ‘waste’.