ABSTRACT
Waste Matters began with the critical premise that creative representations of urban waste offer valuable tools with which to diagnose and critique the intersecting structures responsible for the intensely uneven global development of the current HUD6WDUNO\ DSSDUHQW DW WKH DFWXDO DQG¿JXUDWLYHPDUJLQVRI WRGD\¶V FLWLHV WKH preceding chapters examine a range of texts that place discarded things, degraded spaces and devalued people at the heart of their urban imaginaries. In doing so, they bear critical witness to the social and environmental injustices that emerge from the unwelcome collusion between frequently suppressed colonial histories and new global networks of economic and political oppression.
