权益分类	功能权益	普通用户	{{item.name}}会员
{{category.name}}	{{benefitItem.name}}

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.

到目前为止，我的职业生涯涉及近十年的研究，涉及拉丁美洲循环经济及其工人的物质因素、情感关系和生活经历。我最初的兴趣源于对非正规部门回收商的痴迷，这种生活可以用垃圾及其利润来塑造，以及对垃圾的创造性反思，这些垃圾可能会出现在关注那些每天工作得离垃圾最近的人身上。ESRC博士后奖学金将是一个宝贵的机会，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小学生传播我过去和现在的研究成果。随着环境变化步伐的加快，我的研究成果的公开将是学术辩论、政策环境和后代教育的最及时的时机。这笔奖学金还将用于加强关于乌拉圭和巴西政府支持的两国和道德回收项目未来研究的提议。在我的博士后研究期间，我计划承担的最重要的工作包括将我的ESRC资助的博士论文转化为一本书的手稿，将与美国一所大学的出版商一起出版。这本书提出的核心理论是，发展中国家的废物，特别是乌拉圭的废物，可以被认为是现代的公地，面临被侵占和封闭的风险，在结构上相当于18世纪和19世纪被英国包围的农村公地。通过与乌拉圭最大的垃圾填埋场内和周围的拾荒者(乌拉圭拾荒者)进行详细和细微的人种学接触，这本书将在通常与风险和赤贫相关的情况下，将其对“公共”资源的意义赋予生活。这本书也将对不断增长的关于废物处理基础设施的文献做出重要贡献，特别是关于正式和非正式废物劳动之间的伦理冲突，以及国家和影子基础设施之间的伦理冲突。直到现在，我一直无法回到乌拉圭展示我的研究成果。ESRC奖学金将允许我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介绍我的论文。随着回收的正规化在该地区继续快速进行，我的论文的提出将构成一种紧急干预，重新思考非正式废物工作的作用，突出它作为对贫困家庭的宝贵支持的作用，以及它出人意料的欢乐、欢乐和愉悦的维度。该奖学金的一小部分将用于将关键的博士论文成果翻译成西班牙语，这是在外语环境中工作时的一个重要的伦理和实际考虑因素。同时，我将撰写一系列期刊文章，这些文章借鉴了我的博士研究成果，以及我目前对拉丁美洲“纸板出版”现象的研究。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，也指一场位于环保主义、政治和美学的交叉点上的运动。作为这一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)的出版商进行人种学研究，并协调一系列影响活动。我将利用这项研究，在我担任ESRC研究员期间与露西·贝尔博士共同撰写一篇文章，初步标题为“身体、书籍和障碍”。我还计划在我担任研究员期间在曼彻斯特的学校传授纸板博彩研讨会，这些研讨会以前在墨西哥和干草节上进行。这些活动旨在促进识字、艺术表达和环境意识。