Your trash Is someone's treasure: The politics of value at a Michigan landfill

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-46

  Reno, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Materiality; Politics of value; Rubbish; Scavenging; Waste technologies

Indexed keywords

LANDFILL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE TECHNOLOGY;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59649116739     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: 14603586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359183508100007     Document Type: Article

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