SubsidieMeestersOntologies of Waste: A Relational Study of How Waste Comes to Matter for Humans, Society, and Future
WasteMatters explores the integral role of waste in society through more-than-human ethnography, aiming to shift the paradigm from circular economy to a relational theory of waste.
Projectdetails
Introduction
The future world imagined by the circular economic model is a world without waste, provided that materials and energy circulate efficiently enough through society. The project WasteMatters disrupts the waste-as-resource paradigm prevalent in the circular economy related to politics, business, and scholarship alike, and examines our contemporary trashscapes beyond the idea(l) of the eternal redemption of waste.
Project Approach
Its novel approach is to analyze the leaky realities of waste as integral to the human condition and as constitutive of society. The project explores the implications of waste throughout society and what waste does for/to us.
Key Questions
The project addresses several key questions:
- What kind of relations, agencies, and spatiotemporal scales does waste assume, prompt, enact, and sustain?
- To what kind of futures does society commit itself with waste?
- What do humans become with waste?
Methodology
The project develops a new methodology, more-than-human ethnography, to attend to the vibrant nature and active role of waste in how we live together.
Research Design
The research will be carried out through four sub-studies across various sites (in Sweden and Finland), which function as important nodal points in the management and circulation of wastes:
- Households
- Businesses
- Biogas plants
- Waste incinerators
- A nuclear waste repository
To attend to the multiplicity of waste, the project will focus on four kinds of waste:
- Food waste
- Plastic waste
- Waste incineration ash
- Nuclear waste
Expected Outcomes
Through the research design, the project will generate groundbreaking insight into waste as both constitutive of society and as something that disturbs it.
Insights and Theory Building
The empirical, methodological, and conceptual insights will be combined to enable a leap in theory building to develop a new relational theory of waste that pays attention to the multiple spatiotemporal scales of society and human actions. Ultimately, this will lead to a paradigm change from the circular economy to waste matter society.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 1.974.800 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 1.974.800 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-9-2022 |
| Einddatum | 31-8-2027 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SRpenvoerder
Land(en)
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