From Waste Management to Waste Care

Veera Kinnunen; Melisa Duque

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-15827-8_7

From Waste Management to Waste Care

Veera Kinnunen
, Melisa Duque

Department of Design

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Abstract

What would waste relations be like if they were conceptualized as waste care rather than waste management? To explore this inquiry in practice, we examine two different ethnographic examples of dwelling with waste: (1) smart home technologies as part of ageing healthcare services in regional Australia and (2) bokashi composting as an alternative waste practice in urban Finland. Bringing together scholarship on infrastructures from design anthropology, and waste studies with new materialist and feminist perspectives, we propose infra-ecologies of waste care as an analytical tool to unpack complex care relations embedded in everyday waste practices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Infrastructural Being
Subtitle of host publication	Rethinking dwelling in a naturecultural world
Editors	Jarno Valkonen, Veera Kinnunen, Heikki Huilaja, Teemu Loikkanen
Place of Publication	Cham Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	7
Pages	147-170
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Print)	9783031158261, 9783031158278
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15827-8_7
Publication status	Published - 2022

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