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From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary

From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary

Hardcover

Business GeneralAustrian & Hungarian HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0253348382
ISBN13: 9780253348388
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Apr 4 2007
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.42 Depth: 9.54
Language: English

Zsuzsa Gille combines social history, cultural analysis, and environmental sociology to advance a long overdue social theory of waste in this study of waste management, Hungarian state socialism, and post-Cold War capitalism. From 1948 to the end of the Soviet period, Hungary developed a cult of waste that valued reuse and recycling. With privatization the old environmentally beneficial, though not flawless, waste regime was eliminated, and dumping and waste incineration were again promoted. Gille's analysis focuses on the struggle between a Budapest-based chemical company and the small rural village that became its toxic dump site.

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