Polluted politics: the development of an Israeli-Palestinian e-waste economy

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 rema...

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Hauptverfasser: Davis, John-Michael (VerfasserIn), Garb, Yaakov (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:Global Middle East (Cambridge, England)
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Zusammenfassung: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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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 255 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009483629
DOI:10.1017/9781009483629

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