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Bringing in the Garbage: Opening a Critical Space for Vehicle Disposal Practices

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dc.contributor.authorSurak, Sarah Marieen
dc.contributor.committeechairLuke, Timothy W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberLaBerge, Ann F.en
dc.contributor.committeememberHull, Robert Bruce IVen
dc.contributor.committeememberFell, Richard D.en
dc.contributor.departmentPublic and International Affairsen
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-06T15:42:07Zen
dc.date.adate2012-05-30en
dc.date.available2017-04-06T15:42:07Zen
dc.date.issued2012-04-19en
dc.date.rdate2016-10-18en
dc.date.sdate2012-04-23en
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation examines the relationship among practices and policies of waste/ing and economic structures to make visible the implications of vehicle disposal policies for environmental policy and theory. Consequently, I attempt to build upon the small body of literature that is now critically engaging with waste production and resulting actions/inaction in the form of policies of management. In doing this I use waste as a lens to examine the interrelationships among environmental degradation and economic and political structures. Further, I examine these phenomena in relation to a physical object, the automobile, to add materiality to abstract notions of waste as it relates to both the political and the economic. Through vehicle recycling policies, I analyze how underlying economic structures in contemporary capitalism result in specific responses to the "problems" of waste as well as how the related responses, or "solutions" perpetuate an un-ecological industrial system which severely restricts the possibilities of making substantial change in the production of environmental harms.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.identifier.otheretd-04232012-075944en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04232012-075944/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/77046en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRecyclingen
dc.subjectEnd of Life Vehicleen
dc.subjectMeso-level Analysisen
dc.subjectExtended Producer Responsibilityen
dc.titleBringing in the Garbage: Opening a Critical Space for Vehicle Disposal Practicesen
dc.typeDissertationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplinePublic and International Affairsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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