Daniele Vico

The Political Ecology of Informal Waste Recyclers in India: Circular Economy, Green Jobs, and Poverty Abstract. Waste is increasingly a site of social conflict. The questions related to waste management are not merely technical; what, how, where, and by who

Discovering a (relatively) new book on waste pickers in India and am excited to read this! academic.oup.com/book/46139

♻️ Please share, cite, and connect if you're working on waste, informality, justice, or the political economy of the environment!
#wastepickers #PoliticalEcology #EnvironmentalJustice #WastePickers #GlobalSouth #EcologicalEconomics #WasteStudies #UrbanStudies #JustTransition #ContestedWaste
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✊ it presents 70 cases of waste-related #conflicts involving waste pickers, collected with the contribution of more than 50 activists and researchers from all over the world, the ejatlas.org, the IAWP @globalrec.bsky.social and WIEGO - Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing
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This edited volume explores how the modern waste management policies of #wastecapitalism marginalise informal recyclers across the Global South - and how waste pickers resist through grassroots organising and #environmentaljustice struggles
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Our new book is finally out!! 🚨📚

➡️ "Contested Waste: Environmental Conflicts and Waste Picker Resistance in The Global South"

It was a privilege to work with @federicodemaria.bsky.social and Lucia Fernandez on this edited volume exploring the marginalisation and the struggles of #wastepickers 🧵⤵️

In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.

Out books of the year: the books we read in 2024

📚 Our Books of 2024

🌪️ We’re living through turbulent times; history is moving quickly. These are the books that have helped us make sense of it all and sharpen our political praxis.🧵

The existence of trans and queer people is not inappropriate for any age to know about

Eleven counts. The first two both invoking terrorism. The ruling class is treating killing one of their own, with the motive being related to the evils of our health care system, as a fundamentally different act than if you or I were to be murdered.

I understand calling for individualized responses or even mass resistance to AI in academia. It's important to do what we can individually. But if unionization isn't part of the conversation, then we're not giving ourselves the best chance to win. Unions are the best institutions to help control AI

Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF): A Critical Analysis, with a Focus on Agriculture, Land, and Food | National Farmers Union Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs) pose significant risks to food security, biodiversity, and climate goals while failing to address aviation’s true emissions challenge. The report highlights the trade...

This introduction on Sustainable Aviation Fuel from the National Farmers Union goes hard:

“any plan to fuel a doubling of air travel from the planet’s oversubscribed land reveals an ignorance of the magnitude by which we have already transgressed planetary boundaries” www.nfu.ca/publications...

guys we just won THREE elections UNANIMOUSLY in 24 hours 😭

y’all wanna see our newest union babes??👀

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💯 As I tell my students, having AI write your philosophy paper is like sending a robot to the gym for you and expecting to reap the health benefits.

Israel has invaded Syria - with Western complicity This is a blatant land grab - and an attempt to hobble any new Syrian government - by an Israeli state cheered on by Western politicians and media.

Israel has invaded Syria.

The failure of the Western media to refer to an invasion is nothing other than disinformation.

A lie by omission is still a lie. You are being lied to.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-has...