{"id":2777,"date":"2025-03-25T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/recycle2024\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2025-03-25T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T13:57:00","slug":"disposability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/recycle2024\/2025\/03\/25\/disposability\/","title":{"rendered":"Disposability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Questions for this week: <\/strong>What is disposability, and how did the concept emerge? What makes an object disposable? In what ways do our political and economic systems treat people as waste? How can we better study political and economic power from the perspective of the waste of the political economy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Readings:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stouffer, Lloyd. \u201cPlastics Packaging: Today and Tomorrow.\u201d Chicago: The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc., 1963.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Acaroglu, Leyla. \u201cDesign for Disposability.\u201d Disruptive Design (blog), January 3, 2018. https:\/\/medium.com\/disruptive-design\/design-for-disposability-962647cbcbb0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hawkins, Gay. \u201cDisposability.\u201d Discard Studies, May 21, 2019. https:\/\/discardstudies.com\/2019\/05\/21\/disposability\/<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wright, Melissa W.<em> Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism<\/em>. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. Intro 1-6, Ch 2 23-44<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions for this week: What is disposability, and how did the concept emerge? 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