Polluted Politics
The Development of an Israeli-Palestinian E-Waste Economy
Series: The Global Middle East;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 5 December 2024
- ISBN 9781009483636
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 235x159x21 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 609
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Short description:
Polluted Politics chronicles research into the emergence and impacts of the Israeli-Palestinian e-waste economy and pathways for change.
MoreLong description:
This book describes the politically charged afterlife of Israeli electronics gathered by and processed in a cluster of rural Palestinian villages that has emerged as an informal regional e-waste hub. As with many such hubs throughout the global South, rudimentary recycling practices represent a remarkable entrepreneurial means of livelihood amidst poverty and constraint, that generates staggering damage to local health and the environment, with tensions between these reaching a breaking point. John-Michael Davis and Yaakov Garb draw on a decade of community-based action research with and within these villages to contextualise the emergence, realities and future options of the Palestinian hub within both the geo-political realities of Israel's occupation of the West Bank as well as shifting understandings of e-waste and recycling dynamics and policies globally. Their stories and analysis are a poignant window into this troubled region and a key sustainability challenge in polarized globalized world.
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Acknowledgements; Part I. Positioning E-waste Hubs: 1. The emergence of e-waste hubs; 2. The west line e-waste economy; 3. Crude portrayals, crude proposals; 4. Co-creating e-waste hub futures; 5. Can tails wag the dog? a hub-driven approach to e-waste reform; Part II. Pathways and Predicaments: 6. E-waste burning: causes, consequences, and corrections; 7. The toxic elephant in the room; 8. Border frictions: formalizing the Palestinian e-waste industry?; 9. Open questions, opening futures; References; Index.
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