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ENDORSEMENTS

I think this is an excellent book. It is well-researched and exceptionally well-written. I particularly like the fact that OBrien is utterly fearless and critically independent. He writes vigorously and entertainingly and challenges conventional wisdoms at every turn. He knows the literatureliterary, historical, empirical and theoreticalthoroughly and brings to it an extraordinarily inquiring and critical mind. There have been a few good books on waste, and this one is certainly among the very best of them. Martin OBrien has established himself as one of the few sociological authorities on this subject and, on this evidence, he is the very best of them.

Christopher Rootes, Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology, University of Kent

Overall, this is an excellent, well written, scholarly and exciting bookrelevant to policy as well as academia It does more than merely filling a gap between historical studies of waste and more technocratic and environmental debatesin effect it sets out a whole new way of conceptualising the constitutive role of rubbish in society and as such its intellectual impact is set to ripple out widely across a range of related debates.

Elizabeth Shove, Professor of Sociology, University of Lancaster

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Understanding the Rubbish Society

Martin O'Brien

A Crisis of Waste?

Understanding the Rubbish Society

Martin OBrien

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O'Brien, Martin, 1957-

A crisis of waste? : understanding the rubbish society / Martin O'Brien.

p. cm. (Routledge advances in sociology; 33)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-415-96098-4 (hardback: alk. paper)

1. Urbanization. Sustainable development. 3. Refuse and refuse disposal. 4.

Urban ecology. I. Title.

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Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor,
but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy
but do not like (Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library)

For Katie and the rubbish of her past
and for William and Isobel and the rubbish of their future

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