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Innovative research on waste from around the world

Worldwide Waste
A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

A Subscribe-to-Open Journal



Aims and Scope

Worldwide Waste is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal presenting innovative research on waste from around the world. It provides the first scholarly platform for open-access scholarship that critically interrogates the cultural, social, economic and political systems within which waste is created, managed and circulated. Since both the materials of discards and their meanings vary in time and space, research on waste needs to attend to empirical investigation of local contexts. Devoted to scholarship, the journal privileges no particular theories, debates or trends. Its goal is to actively stimulate publications of innovative scholarship on relatively unexplored topics and/or from geographical areas that have thus far been underrepresented in waste studies. The scope of Worldwide Waste is not restricted to the present, but welcomes contributions from scholars investigating historical aspects of human relationships with waste. Submissions are encouraged from across the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, archaeology, ecology, geography, politics, sociology, and science and technology studies. Submissions are also welcomed from disciplines in which waste-related research is currently less prominently represented, such as literature, philosophy, and the visual and performing arts.

Worldwide Waste will be published by white Horse Press from 2024. Previous volumes were published by Ubiquity.

Worldwide Waste is conceived as open access. For 2024, we are seeking to cover the journal's production costs without charging author fees through a Subscribe-to-Open offer.

The journal publishes double blind peer reviewed papers. Papers should be submitted using our ONLINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM.

EDITORIAL TEAM

Co-editors in Chief

Katarzyna Cwiertka  Leiden University, Netherlands
Loretta Lou  Durham University, United Kingdom


EDITORIAL BOARD

ISSN: 2399-7117 (Online, OPEN ACCESS via S2O)

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