Plastics Environment Culture and the Politics of WasteTatiana KonradLabel: Edinburgh University PressDescription: Plastics Environment Culture and the Politics of Waste examines plastic as a distinct cultural political and environmental phenomenon. It outlines the intricate relationship with plastic that humanity has been building over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries drawing on examples from history the arts and literature as well as examining the place of plastics in the current health environmental and energy crises. The aim of this book is to reveal the complex nature of plastics from their rapid incorporation into our advancing ways of life to the reenvisioning of plastics’ role in human life and how through abundant production consumption and disposal of plastics humanity has initiated a toxic invasion of natural environments and human and nonhuman bodies. Bringing together various perspectives from the humanities this edited collection contributes to the ongoing research on plastics and petrocultures and emphasizes the crucial significance of addressing the plastic crisis through culture.
