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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction : Second-hand Cultures and Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing and Care.- Chapter 2. Reuse and ReUse: Informal and Institutional Transfer of Used Goods.- Chapter 3. Social Capital in Secondhand Markets.- Chapter 4. Greening Farmers Markets: How Communities Come Together to Keep Items and Waste Out of the Landfill.- Chapter 5. “These System Will Provide their Own Lessons”: University Reuse Programs as Sites of Material Care and Educational Praxis.- Chapter 6. Fixing Coffeemakers and Giving Away Couches: Urban Economies of Reuse, Repair, Sharing, and Care in Germany.- Chapter 7. Ready to Repair: Teleologies of Secondhand Electronics Market and Repairing in Tanzania.- Chapter 8. “This is really genbrug!” International Mothers’ Consumption of Second-hand Children’s Good in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Chapter 9. Frictional Infrastructures: Navigating the Socio-Spatial Landscape of Second-Hand and Waste Tires in Mega-City Lagos.- Chapter 10. The Immense Possibilities of Six Yards of Cloth: Saris, Recycling, and Power in Indian Households.- Chapter 11. Reclaimed wood in a reclaimed city? Or, the story of Joe’s new table.- Chapter 12. Second-hand for the “Third World”: Charitable Gift Giving during Religious Volunteer-Tourism in the Dominican Republic.- Chapter 13. Secondhand Sacred: Christian Material Culture and Reseller Ethics.
