Waste and Discards in the Asia Pacific Region : Social and Cultural Perspectives (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Contemporary Cultural Perspectives on Discards in the Asia-Pacific Region  2. Caste, Hierarchy and Cultural Construction of Food (Waste?)  3. Environment by, with, and for the Citizens: Collective Identity Shaping the Community-Driven Solid Waste Management in Kerala, India  4. Polluted Histories, Clean Futures? Differing Scenarios for an Electronic Waste Circular Economy in China  5. What Type of Trash are You? Steering "Green" Citizenship and Self-Responsibility in Urban China  6. Becoming Visible: An Examination of Chen Qiulin’s Farewell Poem (2002) and Jia Zhangke’s Still Life (2006)  7. Individually and Collectively Grieving the Fukushima Dead at a Waste-Mountain: A Reading of Post-3/11 Novel ‘Hikari no Yama [Mountain of Light]’ by Japanese Monk-Writer Genyu Sokyu  8. Defining Food (and its Waste)  9. Waste Through Different Eyes: Multi-Sited Photovoice Explorations  10. Afterword: Planetary Potlatch: Scrutinizing the Moral Economy of Recycling