Bremner, N and Bahmad, J orcid.org/0000-0003-0033-2390 (2017) Introduction. French Cultural Studies, 28 (3). pp. 241-247. ISSN 0957-1558
Abstract
Although the act of labelling cultural practices or products as trash is often framed as a casual dismissal based on self-evident assumptions, it can in fact be viewed as a mechanism which reflects, perpetuates and justifies the power dynamics of the social context. Trash theorists have argued that our relationship to material trash should be denaturalised and recognised as socio-culturally situated, but should the same not also apply to our relationship to trash culture? The contributions to this special issue all aim to denaturalise trash cultures in the Francophone world through critical and reflexive analyses which tease out social and power dynamics specific to the social context in question.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | gender, race, sexuality, social class, trash culture, waste |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > French (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number British Academy pf140098 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2017 09:52 |
Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2017 09:52 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0957155817714118 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:120479 |