Grounding Waste: Towards a Sociology of Waste Networks

Dr. Honor Fagan ()
Additional contact information
Dr. Honor Fagan: National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM)

No 18, NIRSA Working Paper Series from National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), NUI Maynooth, Ireland.

Abstract: This article contributes towards building a sociology of waste. It advances a network analysis framework to understand the position and role of the various actors involved in waste governance in Ireland, North and South. It is the state at the EU and national levels that has sought to deal with waste within the competing sustainability and competitiveness paradigms. However, this article also argues for the critical importance of ‘glocal’ action around waste management (incinerators in particular) in developing a sociology of waste. The issue of waste is seen in parallel terms to that of money as a new global fluid, which, nevertheless, needs to be governed. A major argument of the article is that we need to take a grounded globalisation approach to build insights into networks of waste and networked political processes of waste governance.

Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2002-12
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/publications/WPS18.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/publications/WPS18.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/publications/WPS18.pdf [302 Moved Temporarily]--> https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/nirsa/publications/WPS18.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nir:nirwps:wps18

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NIRSA Working Paper Series from National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), NUI Maynooth, Ireland. NIRSA, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Ireland. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mary O'Brien ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).