Waste/Value

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 275-288

  Gidwani, Vinay ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

"Waste" as marker of distance difference; "waste" the recurring other of "value"; Commons as waste; Waste as society's external margin; Waste posing jeopardy to capital, confounds capital's attempts to discipline; Waste, emerging as excess matter and material excess; Waste value; Wasteful conducts and conspicuous consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886866641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118384497.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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