Recycling Economies in Latin America: Between Ethics, Environmentalism, and Economics

拉丁美洲的回收经济：伦理、环保主义和经济学之间

基本信息

批准号：
ES/S011048/1
负责人：
Patrick O'Hare
金额：
$ 10.64万
依托单位：
University of Manchester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS011048%2F1
关键词：
Recycling Economies Latin America Between

项目摘要

My career to date has involved close to a decade of research on the materialities, affective relationships, and lived experiences of Latin American recycling economies and its workers. My initial interest stemmed from a fascination with informal sector recyclers, the kind of lives that can be fashioned from waste and its profits, and the productive rethinking of waste that might emerge from paying attention to those who work closest to rubbish on a daily basis. The ESRC post-doctoral fellowship would represent an invaluable opportunity to disseminate the findings of my past and current research to an international academic audience, policy-makers in relevant countries, and British schoolchildren through interactive workshops. With the pace of environmental change accelerating, the publicizing of my research would be most timely for academic debates, the policy environment, and the education of future generations. The scholarship would also be used to strengthen a proposal for future research on a binational and ethical recycling project supported by the governments of Uruguay and Brazil. The most important piece of work that I propose to undertake during my post-doctoral fellowship consists of the transformation of my ESRC-funded doctoral thesis into a book manuscript to be published with an American university publisher. The central theory set out in this book will be that waste in developing countries, and in Uruguay in particular, can be considered a modern-day 'commons', at risk of appropriation and enclosure and structurally equivalent to the the rural commons enclosed in Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries. Through detailed and nuanced ethnographic engagement with clasificadores (Uruguayan waste-pickers) in and around the country's largest landfill, the book will bring to life what it means to 'common' resources in circumstances normally associated with risk and desperate poverty. The book will also make an important contribution to the growing literature on infrastructures of waste disposal, particularly the ethical clash between formal and informal waste labour, and state and shadow infrastructures.Until now, I have been unable to return to Uruguay to present my research findings. The ESRC fellowship would allow me to present my thesis to academic specialists, waste policymakers, and research participants in Montevideo and neighbouring Buenos Aires. With the formalisation of recycling continuing apace in the region, the presentation of my thesis would constitute an urgent intervention that reconsiders the role of informal waste-work, highlighting both its role as an invaluable support to poor families, and its surprisingly joyful, ludic, and pleasurable dimensions. A modest contribution from the fellowship will fund the translation of key doctoral thesis findings into Spanish, an important ethical and practical consideration when working in a foreign-language environment. Simultaneously, I will work on a series of journal articles which draw on both my doctoral research, and my current research on the Latin American 'cardboard publishing' phenomenon. This refers to the boom in small, independent, publishers that make book covers from recycled cardboard, and to a movement that sits at the intersection of environmentalism, politics, and aesthetics. My work as a temporary research assistant on this interdisciplinary project involves conducting ethnography with publishers in Guadalajara and Cuernavaca (Mexico), and the coordination of a series of impact activities. I will draw on this research for one article to be co-written with Dr Lucy Bell during my ESRC fellowship, preliminarily entitled 'Bodies, Books, and Barrios'. I also plan to impart cardboard bookmaking workshops, previously carried out in Mexico and at the Hay Festival, at schools in Manchester during my fellowship. These are designed to promoting literacy, artistic expression, and environmental consciousness.

迄今为止，我的职业生涯涉及到有关物质，情感关系以及拉丁美洲回收经济体及其工人的生活经验的十年研究。我最初的兴趣源于对非正式部门回收商的迷恋，这种生活可以从废物及其利润中造成的生活，以及对废物的富有成效的重新思考，这些浪费可能会从每天关注最接近垃圾的人。 ESRC博士后奖学金将是一个宝贵的机会，可以通过互动研讨会将我过去和当前研究的发现传播给国际学术受众，相关国家的政策制定者以及英国学童。随着环境变化的加速，我的研究的宣传最适合学术辩论，政策环境和子孙后代的教育。该奖学金还将用于加强对乌拉圭和巴西政府支持的一项民族和道德回收项目的未来研究的建议。我建议在博士后奖学金期间开展的最重要的工作是将我的ESRC资助的博士学位论文转换为一本书手稿，该手稿将与美国大学出版商一起出版。本书中规定的中央理论将是发展中国家的浪费，尤其是在乌拉圭，可以被视为现代的“下议院”，面临着拨款和封闭式的风险，在18世纪和19世纪期间英国封闭的乡村下议院在结构上等同于结构上。通过在该国最大的垃圾填埋场及其周围及其周围的详细和细微的民族志参与（乌拉圭废物挑选），这本书将使人们在通常与风险和绝望贫困有关的环境中“共同”资源的意义。该书还将为不断增长的关于废物处置基础设施的文献做出重要贡献，尤其是正式和非正式废物劳动以及州和影子基础设施之间的道德冲突。直到现在，我一直无法返回乌拉圭来介绍我的研究结果。 ESRC奖学金将使我能够向蒙得维的亚和邻近布宜诺斯艾利斯的学术专家，废物决策者和研究参与者介绍我的论文。随着该地区回收的持续稳定的形式化，我的论文的介绍将构成紧急干预措施，使非正式废物工作的作用重新介绍了其对贫困家庭的宝贵支持，以及它令人惊讶的快乐，诚实，诚实。奖学金的适度贡献将资助将主要的博士学位论文结果翻译成西班牙语，这是在外语环境中工作时的重要道德和实际考虑。同时，我将研究一系列借鉴我的博士研究的期刊文章，以及我目前对拉丁美洲“纸板出版”现象的研究。这是指小型独立出版商的繁荣，这些出版商从可回收的纸板上盖上书籍，以及在环保主义，政治和美学的交汇处的运动。我在这个跨学科项目上担任临时研究助理的工作涉及与瓜达拉哈拉（Guadalajara）和库纳瓦卡（Cuernavaca）（墨西哥）的出版商进行民族志，以及一系列影响活动的协调。在我的ESRC奖学金期间，我将与露西·贝尔博士共同撰写这篇文章，以题为“尸体，书籍和巴里奥斯”（Barrios）。我还计划在我的奖学金期间在墨西哥和曼彻斯特的学校举行的纸板预订研讨会。这些旨在促进识字，艺术表达和环境意识。