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，我的职业生涯已经涉及近十年对拉丁美洲回收经济及其工人的物质性、情感关系和生活经历的研究。我最初的兴趣源于对非正规部门回收商的迷恋，这种生活可以从废物及其利润中塑造出来，以及通过关注那些每天最接近垃圾的人可能产生的对废物的富有成效的重新思考。 ESRC 博士后奖学金将提供一个宝贵的机会，通过互动研讨会向国际学术受众、相关国家的政策制定者和英国学童传播我过去和当前的研究成果。随着环境变化步伐的加快，我的研究成果的公开对于学术争论、政策环境和子孙后代的教育来说是最及时的。该奖学金还将用于加强乌拉圭和巴西政府支持的两国道德回收项目的未来研究提案。我打算在博士后期间进行的最重要的工作是将 ESRC 资助的博士论文转化为由美国大学出版社出版的书籍手稿。本书提出的中心理论是，发展中国家，特别是乌拉圭的废物可以被视为现代的“公地”，面临着侵占和圈地的风险，在结构上相当于英国围起来的农村公地。在 18 世纪和 19 世纪。通过与该国最大的垃圾填埋场及其周围的分类者（乌拉圭拾荒者）进行详细而细致的民族志交流，这本书将生动地描述在通常与风险和赤贫相关的环境中“公共”资源的含义。这本书还将为越来越多的关于废物处理基础设施的文献做出重要贡献，特别是正规和非正规废物劳动力之间的道德冲突，以及国家和影子基础设施。到目前为止，我一直无法返回乌拉圭展示我的研究发现。 ESRC 奖学金将使我能够向蒙得维的亚和邻近的布宜诺斯艾利斯的学术专家、废物政策制定者和研究参与者展示我的论文。随着该地区回收工作的正规化持续快速发展，我的论文的提出将构成一项紧急干预措施，重新考虑非正式废物处理的作用，强调其作为对贫困家庭的宝贵支持的作用，及其令人惊讶的快乐、有趣、和令人愉悦的尺寸。该奖学金的一小部分捐款将资助将重要的博士论文研究结果翻译成西班牙语，这是在外语环境中工作时的一个重要的道德和实际考虑因素。同时，我将根据我的博士研究和目前对拉丁美洲“纸板出版”现象的研究，撰写一系列期刊文章。这指的是用回收纸板制作书籍封面的小型独立出版商的繁荣，以及一场处于环保主义、政治和美学交叉点的运动。作为这个跨学科项目的临时研究助理，我的工作包括与瓜达拉哈拉和库埃纳瓦卡（墨西哥）的出版商进行民族志研究，以及协调一系列影响力活动。我将利用这项研究，在 ESRC 奖学金期间与 Lucy Bell 博士共同撰写一篇文章，初步题为“身体、书籍和巴里奥斯”。我还计划在我的奖学金期间在曼彻斯特的学校传授纸板书籍制作研讨会，这些研讨会以前在墨西哥和海伊节上举办过。这些旨在促进识字、艺术表达和环境意识。