Circulating waste,circulating bodies ?

Gayatri Rathore (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

This review article uses India'se-waste economy to examine changes in the circular economy.Today,due to a mix of consumptive economies, urban ecological concerns and its disposal in the informal economy, e-waste governance is a critical issue for the country like it is elsewhere. Drawing on preliminary ethnographic findings in the e-waste sector in Jaipur,this review challenges some of the findings on surplus labour by observing the long standing domination of caste and kinship structures in the domestic e-wastetrade. I argue that we need to study expanding spatialities of e-waste through multi-site ethnographies and a focus on context specificities that would enrich our theorization of waste.

Keywords: Caste; Circular economy; E-waste; WasteRecycling

Domains: Political science

Gayatri Rathore. Circulating waste,circulating bodies ?: A critical review of E-wastetrade. Geoforum, 2020, 110, pp.180 - 182. ⟨10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.12.005⟩. ⟨hal-03579868⟩