{"product_id":"composting-utopia-experimental-infrastructures-for-organics-recycling-in-new-york-city-9781625347695","title":"Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew Yorkers generate millions of tons of trash annually, which, through the magic of infrastructure and one of the largest waste management systems in the world, disappears from city sidewalks each night. Under pressure from environmentalists, activists, policymakers, and industry, the New York City Department of Sanitation started exploring ways to divert organic material from the waste stream, and in 2013, launched its composting pilot program. \u003cp\u003e Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork with community composters and microhaulers in New York City, alongside the rollout of the city’s curbside organics collection system, \u003ci\u003eComposting Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e describes how local, grassroots organizations intervened in the city’s waste system, enacting change and presenting an alternative vision of the composting city. As Guy Shaffer argues, movement-driven infrastructure projects develop new tools for organizing the world, give young people of color agency over urban design, and promote sustainability and justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eComposting Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh critique of neoliberal waste management and examines the tensions between formal and informal composting as straddling the boundary between neoliberal sustainability and transformative sustainability.\" - Giovanna Di Chiro, professor of environmental studies at Swarthmore College and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAppropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Schaffer is clearly invested in and hopeful about what community infrastructures can do, but with a critical and analytic eye. Based on sound data and with wonderful insight, \u003ci\u003eComposting Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to science and technology studies.\" - Kim Fortun, author of \u003ci\u003eAdvocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Compost Terms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompost and Hope\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHAPTER 1: A Genealogy of Municipal Organics Recycling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHAPTER 2: The NYC Curbside Organics Collection Pilot: Building the Market for Organics Recycling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHAPTER 3: The NYC Compost Project: Locally Meaningful Composting in Partnership with DSNY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCHAPTER 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBK ROT: Composting Neoliberal Waste Management to Model Just Sustainability\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCONCLUSION\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLessons from the Compost Heap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50099255279959,"sku":"9781625347695","price":23.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781625347695.jpg?v=1740995128","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/composting-utopia-experimental-infrastructures-for-organics-recycling-in-new-york-city-9781625347695","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}