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Global destruction networks and hybrid e-waste economies: Practices and embeddedness in Guiyu, China.
- Source :
- Environment & Planning A; May2022, Vol. 54 Issue 3, p533-553, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Recent geographical scholarship on the illicit e-waste geographies and e-waste processing hubs in the Global South has shed light on the global mobilities, production/destruction networks, and political economy/ecology of e-waste. However, their views about the reactivation of value in waste and the dialectics between waste and value rest predominantly on networks of material linkages shaped by broader political-economic structures at macro scales, but are relatively reticent about how mobilities and networks are coordinated by specific places, and how economic practices conducted by a broad diversity of local actors, often informal, constitute economic relations, transactions and dependencies, mediated by place-sticky social and cultural fabrics and vernacular institutions. Based on a study of Guiyu town in Guangdong Province, China, an (in)famous hub of global e-waste recycling, this study unpacks its cluster evolution through a perspective that works with the concept of embeddedness but by way of an emphasis on practice. By tracing a multiplicity of territorial, sociocultural, and political dynamics that articulate between the local and the global, this study enriches existing scholarships on e-waste geographies, global production/destruction networks, and the economic geographies of the illicit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0308518X
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Environment & Planning A
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155467063
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X211061748