Accumulation : The Material Politics of Plastic (Paperback)

Introduction: From Materiality to Plasticity by Jennifer Gabrys, Gay Hawkins and Mike Michael  Part I: Plastic Materialities  1. Plastics, Materials and Dreams of Dematerialization by Bernadette Bensaude Vincent  2. Process and Plasticity: Printing, Prototyping and the Prospects of Plastic by Mike Michael  Part II: Plastic Economies  3. Made to Be Wasted: PET and Topologies of Disposability by Gay Hawkins  4. The Material Politics of Vinyl: How the State, Industry and Citizens Created and Transformed West Germany’s Consumer Democracy by Andrea Westermann  5. Paying With Plastic: The Enduring Presence of the Credit Card by Joe Deville  Part III: Plastic Bodies  6. The Death and Life of Plastic Surfaces: Mobile Phones by Tom Fisher  7. Reflections of an Unrepentant Plastiphobe: An Essay on Plasticity and the STS Life by Jody A. Roberts  8. Plasticizers: A Twenty-First Century Miasma by Max Liboiron  9. Plastics, the Environment and Human Health by Richard Thompson  Part IV: New Articulations  10. Where Does This Stuff Come From? Oil, Plastic and the Distribution of Violence by James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello  11. International Pellet Watch: Studies of the Magnitude and Spatial Variation of Chemical Risks Associated with Environmental Plastics by Shige Takada  12. Plastic and the Work of the Biodegradable by Jennifer Gabrys