Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag
Plastic monsters: Abjection, worms, the Cthulhic, and the black single-use plastic bag
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10.1177/02637758231178031
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2023-06
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L. Gibson
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L. Gibson
一次性塑料袋是世界上立法最多的塑料物品，在92个国家被禁止。禁令主要集中在非洲和加勒比地区，那里的塑料袋通常是黑色的，塑料足迹很小。这些禁令破坏了边缘化社区的基本经济，社会和技术安排，这些社区依赖于塑料接触和适应来应对多种，重叠，入侵形式的暴力。本文旨在了解这些立法行动的空间和材料性质，以及它们针对的一次性塑料的特定项目。承认一次性塑料袋的（空间化）物质现实，本文认为，这些禁令是对黑色塑料袋作为空间化，种族化，性化，卑鄙的其他立法的回应。文章从怪物理论出发，反思了黑色塑料袋的跨身体负担以及与之相关的黑手、黑色身体、黑市以及黑色、腐败、非法行为。重新认识（黑色）一次性塑料袋作为一个agape，塑料怪物，定义，巡逻，并超越文化/经济边界，本文要求明确的蠕虫活动在经济边缘化，并区分他们从话语构造无定形，触手群众。
The single-use plastic bag is the most legislated item of plastic in the world, banned in over 92 countries. The bans are largely concentrated in Africa and the Caribbean, where the plastic bags are often black and the plastic footprints small. The bans have destabilised essential economic, social, and technical arrangements of marginalised communities reliant on plastic engagements and adaptations to improvise against multiple, overlapping, incursive forms of violence. This article seeks to understand the spatial and material nature of these legislative actions and the particular item of single-use plastic they target. Acknowledging the (spatialised) material realities of the single-use plastic bag, this article argues that these bans are a legislative response to the black plastic bag as spatialised, racialised, sexualised, abject Other. Drawing from monster theory, the article reflects on the trans-corporeal body burdening of black plastic bags and the black hands, black bodies, black markets, and black, corrupt, illicit actions with whom and which they are associated. Reconceptualising the (black) single-use plastic bag as an agape, plastic monster that defines, patrols, and transgresses cultural/economic boundaries, this article calls for making explicit the vermicular activities within economic marginalisation and distinguishing them from the discursively constructed amorphous, tentacled mass.