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From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary

From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Zsuzsa GilleSeries:Framing the GlobalPublish date:2007-04-04Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253348388ISBN-10:253348382UPC:9780253348388Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Europe, Development, Social HistoryBook Topic:Austria & Hungary, Sustainable DevelopmentSize:9.54 x 6.42 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCM5FQFKKW

Zsuzsa Gille combines social history, cultural analysis, and environmental sociology to advance a long overdue social theory of waste in this study of waste management, Hungarian state socialism, and post-Cold War capitalism. From 1948 to the end of the Soviet period, Hungary developed a cult of waste that valued reuse and recycling. With privatization the old environmentally beneficial, though not flawless, waste regime was eliminated, and dumping and waste incineration were again promoted. Gille's analysis focuses on the struggle between a Budapest-based chemical company and the small rural village that became its toxic dump site.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253348388ISBN-10:253348382UPC:9780253348388Book Category:History, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Europe, Development, Social HistoryBook Topic:Austria & Hungary, Sustainable DevelopmentSize:9.54 x 6.42 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCM5FQFKKW

Zsuzsa Gille grew up in socialist Hungary and was active in semi-legal environmental and peace movements. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


Publisher: Indiana University Press

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