Resisting the Wasteocene

Challenging the mainstream narrative of the Anthropocene, the Wasteocene emphasizes the existence of wasting relationships that produce wasted people and ecosystems. This book reveals how these wasting relationships attempt to transform communities into socioecological dumps as well as exploring how those communities resist.

Challenging the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene, Resisting theWasteocene highlights wasting relationships that produce both wasted people and ecosystems. This book exposes how such relationships seek to turn communities into socioecological dumps, while also tracing their forms of resistance.

Across case studies from Eastern Europe, Bangladesh, China, Senegal, Cuba, Italy, and more—and drawing on history, anthropology, cultural studies, and geography—it maps the toxic infrastructures that silence and normalize injustice. With its global, interdisciplinary scope and provocative critique of Anthropocene discourse, this volume makes the Wasteocene visible while opening possible pathways for resisting and escaping it.