Waste is a key category for understanding cultural value. It is not just the 'bad stuff' we dispose of; it is material we constantly struggle to redeem. Culture

Garbage in Popular Culture is the first book to explicitly link media discourse, consumer culture and the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global so

Originally published: New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.

In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social a

After humble beginnings as faltering British colonies, the United States acquired astonishing wealth and power as the result of what we now refer to as moderniz