Patrick O’Hare is a UKRI Future Leader Fellow and Senior Researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. His research focuses on waste, recycling, plastics and labour. He is the author of Rubbish Belongs to the Poor: Hygienic Enclosure and the Waste Commons (2022). Dagna Rams is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, UK, where she is sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Her research has focused on global waste-to-resource trade between Ghana and the world and more recently on discourses and practices of sustainability in global metal markets. She studies how capitalism and technological innovation relate to resource extraction.
A must-read for those interested in the circular economy. This edited collection puts people front and centre, raises awareness of issues of inclusivity, and shows the impact circular solutions can have, even with the best intentions. While the CE agenda is important, we are left reminded that there needs to be a more sensitive and modest approach. * Alison Stowell, Lancaster University, UK *