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Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic

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History, Legislation, Material, Plastic Policy, Plastic Pollution, Policy, Solutions

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Activists, Educators, Innovators, Policy Makers, Researchers, Scientists, Students, Teachers

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Written by Jennifer Gabrys, Gay Hawkins and Mike Michael (2014), Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic explores the vitality and complexity of plastic. It’s an interdisciplinary collection focused on how the presence and recalcitrance of plastic reveals the relational exchanges across human and synthetic materialities. Through a series of themed essays on plastic materialities, plastic economies, plastic bodies and new articulations of plastic, the editors and chapter authors examine specific aspects of plastic in action.

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