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Peter Little: Centering Anthropology, Art, and Advocacy in Ghana's E-Wastescape

Cornell AAP 78 lượt xem 1 week ago
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This lecture explores the ongoing nexus of electronic waste (e-waste), environmental health science, urban policy, and creative intervention in Agbogbloshie, Ghana, a site known for toxic e-waste labor, a vibrant scrap metal economy, and various "solutions-based" interventions. Drawing on ethnographic research, the guiding questions for the lecture include: How does e-waste toxicity get reproduced alongside and in response to urban transformation? How do erasure, resettlement, and advocacy art projects figure in toxic e-waste imaginaries? Finally, what can Ghana's shifting e-wastescape teach us about the growing value and intersectionality of anthropology, art, and urban e-waste advocacy.

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