Call For Papers on Garbage

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence
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Seeking contributions for the 5th issue (Fall 2005) issue, to be sent by September 1st, 2005 (max length 5000 words).

This issue of the Transdisciplinary Journal of Emergence seeks papers that explore the dynamic relationship between garbage and culture. In what ways have different cultures responded to the accumulation of garbage? In what ways do cultures manage, recycle, reuse, or store it? What, indeed, constitutes garbage? Papers may address such topics as:

Perceptions of garbage
Rituals of waste disposal
Politics of producing/consuming/storing garbage
Aesthetics of garbage and/or its management
Ideologies of recycling
Waste management policies
Production/consumption of green products
Literary representations of waste
Appropriations of waste spaces
Garbage and the sublime

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