This short essay shows how “waste”, historically and in the present, has operated as capitalism’s dialectical frontier: animating its relentless drive for profit, subtending its racial hierarchies, and through its unevenly accumulating burdens, throwing planetary ecosystems and vulnerable lives into mounting peril.
Gidwani, Vinay,
"The Accumulation of Capital as the Accumulation of Waste: Nine Propositions"
(2022).
Commodity Frontiers.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/65d1-9s33
Commodity Frontiers is the Journal of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative (CFI). Edited by a group of scholars and researchers from various disciplines and organizations in the CFI Network, the Journal explores the history and present of capitalism, contestation, and ecological …
