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Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities) by Samuel Amago (author) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities) about?
What makes trash trash? How do we decide what to throw away? Driven by these questions and others, Samuel Amago takes us through the streets and alleys of Spain, sorting through recycling bins, libraries, social media, bookstores, and message boards in search of things that have been forgotten, jettisoned, forsaken. Ranging in topic from the transformation of urban space during the transition to democracy to a twenty-first-century sanitation strike that paralyzed Madrid for weeks, from the films
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Samuel Amago (author)
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813945927
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Management, Poetry, Economics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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