A conversation about waste-related diverse economies scholarship
Abstract
Diverse economies scholarship as it has consolidated itself as a disciplinary subfield in the last 15 years has done a tremendous amount of work connecting human economic activity to the more than human world. This work is necessary for the development of more liveable worlds (or shared survival). Waste, wasting has been a consistent feature in diverse economies scholarship, a touch point between the “ecological” and the “economic”. Waste, in its various forms is also a practical problem and in the context of the societies where we live and work, a central preoccupation for policy makers. In this session what we propose to do is open a space for diverse economies scholars who are involved in waste related research to meet one another and exchange ideas. To focus our conversation, we propose to split the session time into two focused conversation on papers, research proposals, artistic outputs, diagrams or visualization that are waste-related. Our thought is to bring convivial thinking to bear upon waste, because why not?
