Global Flows of Electronic 'Waste' and Economies of Repair - Julia Corwin
30. Nov.
Ringvorlesung: Klimakatastrophe. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven
12:15 Uhr, Hörsaal 3
Tracing the movements of ''waste'' from the scrap shop back into secondary use industries, I situate e-waste in India as operating primarily within economies of reuse and repair, rather than waste and recycling. Instead of managing waste, India's broad reuse industries are production-based, maintaining and making new things out of a diversity of new and used materials. This view of e-waste from the repair shop (and even the scrap shop) rather than a recycling factory offers a very different rendering of e-waste and particularly informal e-waste labor in the Global South than is presented in policy and popular media. Building on scholarship on vibrant waste economies, I demonstrate that India's electronic ''waste'' sector is in fact a powerful source of value (and product) creation and call into question e-waste as a definitive ''waste'' product and its management in a ''waste'' economy.
Die Vorlesung wird auf englisch stattfinden.