From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary

by Zsuzsa Gille

Zsuzsa Gille combines social history, cultural analysis, and environmental sociology to advance a long overdue social theory of waste in this study of waste management, Hungarian state socialism, and post-Cold War capitalism. From 1948 to the end of the Soviet period, Hungary developed a cult of waste that valued reuse and recycling. With privatization the old environmentally beneficial, though not flawless, waste regime was eliminated, and dumping...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253348382
• ISBN13: 9780253348388
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"