Gathering Electronic Waste in Tanzania

Labor, Value, and Toxicity

Samwel Moses Ntapanta (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2025
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5626-9 (ISBN)

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Using Tanzania as a case study, this book traces the lifecycle of electronic goods beyond their discard in the Global South to provide a deeper understanding of the informal sector’s vital role in rethinking global discard circulations, labour, value, and toxicity.

Discussions of waste and electronic discard management often view micro-scale ingenious activities around unregulated recycling centers in the Global South only as a source of pollution. Gathering Electronic Waste in Tanzania: Labor, Value, and Toxicity goes further and explores the complexities of electronic waste management. Samwel Moses Ntapanta examines the materialities of electronics and e-discards, toxicity, and the sociocultural and economic fabrics of e-waste management in Tanzania. He traces the lifecycle of electronic goods beyond their discard in the Global South: from the importation of used goods to cycles of repair, and from the collection of ‘scrap’ to repurposing materials for manufacturing. Through the concept of gathering, Ntapanta provides insight into the effects of unregulated mechanisms to address the e-waste problem. He argues that understanding this connection between informal workers and the economy at large paves a path for better waste regime models, reduced violence, and environmental justice for workers and marginalized communities.

Samwel Moses Ntapanta is post-doctorate research fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Workshop at the Downstream of Techno Capitalism
Chapter 1: Electronic Discards: Worlding, Flows and Property Relations
Chapter 2: Informality and its Malcontents in Tanzania: A Brief History
Chapter 3: Repair Allegories: Phenomenology of Electronics Consumption and Repair
Chapter 4: Gatherings: Coming Together of Discards Labor
Chapter 5: Gathering: Locating and Gathering Discards
Chapter 6: Crafting Discards: Tools, Knowledges, and Imaginaries
Chapter 7: Follow the Problem: From Discards, Charcoal Stoves, to Deforestation
Chapter 8: Lifescaping Toxicity: Locating and Living with Pollution
Conclusion: Gathering Home, Hopes and Loss
Bibliography
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	17.01.2025
Zusatzinfo	1 Table, 13 BW Photos
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-6669-5626-0 / 1666956260
ISBN-13	978-1-6669-5626-9 / 9781666956269
Zustand	Neuware