Waste and Value in the Post-Socialist Space

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=2222" target="_blank" >http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=2222</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Waste and Value in the Post-Socialist Space

Original language description

Since 1989 post-socialist sphere has passed through significant changes that shaped handling unwanted things. In this paper, I explore human-waste interactions in the countryside of West Bohemia (Czech Republic) to shed light on the nature of value. In order to understand the relationship between humans and waste I take advantage of ethnography and garbology, analysis of household waste. I argue that value emerges through the relationship to action and materiality mediated by language. The presence of absence also plays a key role considering the value of the unwanted since certain things are never discarded. Instead of being thrown into bins they are considered non-fungible and kept as a memory of the past, circulate among neighbours, undergo renovation, and become part of official recycling process. Through the interconnection of action, things and language I aspire to reveal construction of value on the background of tension between market and non-monetized models where the aspect of morality, sustainability and responsibility influences individual´s decision relating dealing unwanted things.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-03314S" target="_blank" >GA14-03314S: Social Dimension of Household Waste: Consumption in the Post-Socialist Space</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Anthropologie (International Journal of the Science of Man)

ISSN

0323-1119

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

55

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

385-398

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85033499313