{"product_id":"burning-matters-life-labor-and-e-waste-pyropolitics-in-ghana-9780190934545","title":"Burning Matters: Life, Labor, and E-Waste Pyropolitics in Ghana","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter C. Little\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobal trade in electronic waste (e-waste) has led to various waste management challenges and many regions of the Global South have suffered the toxic consequences. In \u003cem\u003eBurning Matters, \u003c\/em\u003e Peter C. Little explores the complex cultural, economic, and environmental health politics of e-waste work in\u003cbr\u003eGhana. He brings to light the lived experiences of Ghana's e-waste workers, as they navigate the health, social, and economic challenges of highly toxic e-waste labor. In particular, Little engages the experiences of e-waste workers who burn bundles of electrical cables to extract copper, a practice\u003cbr\u003ethat contaminates bodies and the urban environment and which has attracted international organizations seeking to mitigate risk and find quick tech solutions to this highly toxic e-waste work. A nuanced perspective on e-waste burning and environmental politics in Africa at a time when global\u003cbr\u003ee-waste generation and trade is at an all-time high, \u003cem\u003eBurning Matters\u003c\/em\u003e contends that e-waste interventions devoid of ethnographic perspective and knowledge risk downplaying the vibrant complexities of e-waste itself and the matters of social life and labor that matter most to Ghana's e-waste workers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47888915300503,"sku":"9780190934545","price":10588.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190934545.webp?v=1781169428","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/burning-matters-life-labor-and-e-waste-pyropolitics-in-ghana-9780190934545","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}