Book review: reclaiming the discarded: life and labor on Rio's garbage dump by Kathleen M. Millar

Rams, Dagna (2018) Book review: reclaiming the discarded: life and labor on Rio's garbage dump by Kathleen M. Millar. LSE Review of Books (02 Jul 2018). Website.

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Abstract

In Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump, Kathleen M. Millar offers a new ethnographic study of Jardim Gramacho, the biggest waste dump in Latin America until its closure in 2012. The impassioned analysis that arises out of Millar’s immersion in the lives and labour of the catadores who sift through the waste brings dignity to subjects otherwise considered marginal and reveals a progressive potential in work otherwise considered ‘rubbish’, writes Dagna Rams.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2018/07/02...
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2018 09:36
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 06:52
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/91190

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