Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain

by Samuel Amago

What makes trash trash? How do we decide what to throw away? Driven by these questions and others, Samuel Amago takes us through the streets and alleys of Spain, sorting through recycling bins, libraries, social media, bookstores, and message boards in search of things that have been forgotten, jettisoned, forsaken. Ranging in topic from the transformation of urban space during the transition to democracy to a twenty-first-century sanitation strike...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813945917
• ISBN13: 9780813945910
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 9.1"