Waste Matters: Urban margins in contemporary literature

by Sarah K Harrison

Book Overview

How do those pushed to the margins survive in contemporary cities? What role do they play in today's increasingly complex urban ecosystems? Faced with stark disparities in human and environmental wellbeing, what form might more equitable cities take?

Waste Matters argues that contemporary literature and film offer an insightful and timely response to these questions through their formal and thematic revaluation of urban waste. In their creation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367271222
• ISBN13: 9780367271220
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"