{"product_id":"cycling-and-recycling-histories-of-sustainable-practices-9781789200553","title":"Cycling and Recycling: Histories of Sustainable","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tTechnology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies—bicycling and waste recycling—tracing their development over time and providing valuable context for the policy successes and failures of today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…an informative and very readable volume that offers stimulating ideas for further research.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Technikgeschichte\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The reviewer freely admits to have learned many interesting and fascinating facts about ‘Cycling and Recycling’ in very different country contexts. In addition, most of the contributions have been written in such a way as to be so comprehensible and jargon-free as to make them accessible also to readers beyond the narrow circle of specialists, which appears particularly important for an interdisciplinary field such as environmental history. In addition, the collection reveals, beyond the semantic bracket of the title, a thematic stringency that one can only wish for in the cases of many available syntheses bound together.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e•\u003c\/strong\u003e H-Soz-Kult\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book’s conceptual framework is truly innovative and makes a much-needed intervention in the vast literature on sustainability. Writing against the ‘techno-fix mentality’ that dominates so many contemporary environmental discourses, the editors persuasively argue for the need to resurrect ‘older technologies for a new purpose.’”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e•\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Edward D. Melillo\u003c\/strong\u003e, Amherst College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: INTRODUCTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e How Old Technologies Became Sustainable: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRuth Oldenziel and Helmuth Trischler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: CYCLING HISTORIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eUse and Cycling in West Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHans Peter Hahn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Politics of Bicycle Innovation: Comparing the American and Dutch Human-Powered Vehicle Movements, 1970s—present\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eManuel Stoffers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eScarcity, Poverty, Exclusion: Negative Associations of Bicycle’s Uses and Cultural History in France\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCathérine Bertho Lavenir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eWho Pays, Who Benefits? Bicycle Taxes as Policy Tool of the Public Good, 1890–2012\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAdri de la Bruhèze and Ruth Oldenziel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eMonuments of Unsustainability: Planning, Path Dependence, and Cycling in Stockholm\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMartin Emanuel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: INTERSECTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eBicycling and Recycling in Japan: Divergent Trajectories\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWilliam Steele\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t \u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: RECYCLING HISTORIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Premodern Sustainability? The Secondhand and Repair Trade in Urban Europe\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGeorg Stöger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Waste to Assets: How Household Waste Recycling Evolved in West Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRoman Köster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eEcological Modernization of Waste-Dependent Development? Hungary’s 2010 Red Mud Disaster\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eZsuzsa Gille\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eDer Kampf um den Abfallstrom\u003c\/em\u003e.” Conflict and Contestation in Re-Valuing E-Waste in Germany\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDjahane Salehabidi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: REFLECTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eCan History Offer Pathways to Sustainability?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDonald Worster\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003eHistory, Sustainability, Choice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRobert Friedel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tContributors\u003cbr\u003e \tSelect Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042548515159,"sku":"9781789200553","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789200553.jpg?v=1750954591","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cycling-and-recycling-histories-of-sustainable-practices-9781789200553","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}