From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist HungaryZsuzsa 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 and waste incineration were again promoted. Gille's analysis focuses on the struggle between a Budapest-based chemical company and the small rural village that became its toxic dump site. |
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2 Toward a Social Theory of Waste | 11 |
3 Metallic Socialism | 41 |
4 The Primitive Accumulation of Waste in Metallic Socialism | 79 |
5 The Efficiency Model | 105 |
6 The Limits of Efficiency | 125 |
7 The Chemical Model | 145 |
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Baranya County BCW's Budapest Chemical by-products capitalism chemical industry Chinoin cleanup concept of waste cooperative culture decree discourse document number Eastern Europe ecological modernization economic end-of-pipe enterprises environment environmental European Union experts facilities factory firms Fonds Forints form of waste fulfill garbage Garé Garé's Gazda movement global goal hazardous wastes Heti Világgazdaság Hungarian Hungaropec Hungary Hungary's increase industrial waste iron landfill material conservation Mátyás Rákosi MDP-MSZMP MÉH ment metallic waste model Ministry mobilized National Népszabadság NWMP Ófalu official Party Pécs percent personal interview plants pollution practice preservation unit Press production process programs quotas recycling reduction regulation result social socialist countries society Soviet Soviet Union Szabad Nép Szalánta technical technologies tion tons village waste collection waste dump waste incineration waste issues waste legislation waste management waste materials waste policies waste problems waste production waste regime waste reuse waste treatment Western workers
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