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Waste in Sydney: Unwelcome Returns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Gay Hawkins
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I've just published a book about waste, so when i think about cities, i see grimy fast-food packaging in gutters, abandoned mattresses on vacant lots, and trash bins full of rotting lettuces. Shades of T. S. Eliot's Prufrock here but also a particular analytic problem: how do we make sense of the role of waste in the formation of an urban sensibility?

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Correspondents at large SYDNEY
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PMLA , Volume 122 , Issue 1: Special Topics Cities , January 2007, pp. 348 - 351
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2007

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