 Getting by With the Irreparable: Following the Traces of Plastic OceansFaire monde avec l’irréparable. Sur les traces des océans de plastiqueBaptiste Monsaingeon ()
Post-Print from HAL Abstract: In fifteen years, the problem of plastic waste in oceans has turned into an alarming symbol of the global ecological crisis. Invisible by its microscopic nature, the phenomenon has become a public problem trough a dramatic iconography depicting some deadly damages linked with the omnipresence of leftovers in these vast and particularly remote areas. The "plastic continent" metaphor also attended to unite a wide variety of actors around questing solutions to clean the oceans. But is it only desirable to "repair the world"? To what extent are these large cleaning projects as problematic as those that seem able to justify them? In the absence of technically viable cleaning up solution, some people try to sublimate these traces of the current disaster to give pause for thought to the overland origins of this plastic invasion and to experiment new ways of inhabiting the world with leftovers. Keywords: Waste; Plastics; Oceans; Social anthropology of waste; Ecological crisis; Déchets; Plastiques; Océans; Socio-anthropologie du déchet; Crise écologique (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Techniques et culture, 2016, Réparer le monde, 65-66, pp.34-47 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02567246 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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