A5055602247- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Latin American socio-political dynamics
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Social Sciences and Policies
- Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education
- Public Spaces through Art
- Social and Economic Solidarity
- Environmental and Ecological Studies
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
- Finance, Taxation, and Governance
- Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Administrative Law and Governance
- Latin American Cultural Politics
- Development, Ethics, and Society
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Urban and sociocultural dynamics
- Sustainable Industrial Ecology
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
National University of Quilmes
2005-2024
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
2014-2024
Centro Científico Tecnológico - Tucumán
2007-2021
University of Buenos Aires
2010-2020
National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco
2006
Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación, el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación
2006
The discussion on the circular economy (CE) has attracted a rising interest within global policy and business as way of increasing sustainability production consumption. Yet literature mostly portrays Global North perspective. There is diverse spectrum community-based organizations playing important roles in resource recovery transformation, particularly, but not only, South countries, providing innovative examples for grassroots involvement waste management CE. This article proposes to add...
While the circular economy (CE) is discussed in global North as an innovative approach to waste management, idea of resource flows has long been central work pickers all over world. They independently or groups, collecting, classifying, and reinserting a wide range discarded materials into economy. These grassroots initiatives have accumulated valuable knowledge offer perspectives on handling waste, informed framed by their everyday experiences. Yet efforts are hardly recognized...
Waste picker organisations (WPOs) around the globe collect, transport and process waste to earn their living but represent a widely excluded, marginalised impoverished segment of society. WPOs are highly innovative, created by grassroots out “nothing” deliver economic, social environmental sustainability. Still, we do not know how such innovations developed, they disseminated adopted other groups. This article examines characteristics, challenges across five countries in Latin America East...
How is it possible to design and deploy circular economy (CE) strategies oriented inclusive development? can non-traditional units of production consumption (i.e., actual productive actors such as waste picker cooperatives peasant organizations) be integrated into these strategies? Using data collected a result two long-term participatory action research projects carried out with cooperative in Buenos Aires 65 families Chaco (both located Argentina) the paper opens door proactive critical...
This paper examines the multiple strategies articulated by grassroots recycler networks to bring about socioenvironmental change. The shows how these are an emblematic case of governmentality, whereby urban poor communities contribute building more inclusive environmental regimes developing technologies power typical powerful. These include enumeration, with its resulting self-knowledge; production discourses and rationalities social inclusion sustainability; engagement in open diverse...
Drawing on collective experience from ten collaborative research projects focused the Global South, we identify three major challenges that impede translation of sustainability and resilience into better-informed choices by individuals policy-makers in turn can support transformation to a sustainable future. The comprise: (i) converting knowledge produced during successful application; (ii) scaling up time when are short-term potential impacts long-term; (iii) across space, local sites...
The Circular Economy (CE) narrative is spreading at a global scale, addressing different actors and settings, thus facing new theoretical empirical challenges. However, CE initiatives in the Global South have tended to extrapolate developed countries' perspectives, as if provides universal benchmark converge to. Drawing from political ecology of waste Latin America building on data derived two case studies recycling Argentina, we focus how issue formalisation previously informal recyclers...
Waste pickers all over the world work innovatively to reduce environmental footprint of cities as they struggle meet their critical livelihood obligations. Informed by case waste picker organizations (WPOs) this article examines how grassroots initiatives and extreme-niche innovations are created sustained mobilizing resources, rationales relations. The study is informed a cross-national survey in-depth interviews with WPOs in Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua, Kenya Tanzania, builds upon...
This paper draws on an ethnographic research to critically analyze the process of formalization so-called "informal" recyclers within Buenos Aires metropolitan area. It claims that their recognition by governmental and nongovernmental agencies has been mostly oriented crystallize role as a workforce in lower shackles recycling value chain. In contrast, other valuable contributions waste pickers, such development practical pedagogy towards segregation materials, or design manufacturing own...
Este artículo presenta resultados de una investigación realizada en cooperativa "cartoneros" del área metropolitana Buenos Aires dedicada al reciclado residuos, focalizando el análisis la materialidad sus prácticas. A partir etnográfico las rutas objetos descartados como "basura" y su posterior apropiación, busco evidenciar los modos cuales éstos resucitan vida social, cargándose nuevos sentidos, sosteniendo y/o produciendo vínculos. movimiento tránsito da lugar a un complejo proceso social...
Resumen En este trabajo presentamos resultados de un análisis etnográfico realizado con habitantes del mayor relleno sanitario actualmente activo en el Gran Buenos Aires. Estas personas que se abastecían ingresando al basural, son quienes gestionan una las “plantas clasificación y separación” habilitadas dentro relleno. El sostiene la necesidad recuperar los sentidos estas conjugan para definir sus prácticas laborales, suspendiendo nociones preconstruídas como “informal” o “precario”....
Unlike the private companies that runs waste collection system, recovery and classification of carried out by cartoneros (waste pickers) in Buenos Aires metropolis has not yet been acknowledged as a “public service” (one main demands cartonero organizations). Their work is based on commercialization recovered materials for local global recycling industry market defined high levels intermediation incidence monopolies price formation. Consequently, profitability attained this first link chain...
Este artículo presenta resultados de un estudio etnográfico que aborda prácticas diseño, construcción y sistematización maquinarias desarrolladas por una cooperativa "cartoneros" (recuperadores urbanos) Argentina. Esta investigación demuestra más allá dar sustento a la actividad económica cooperativa, estos ensambles sociotécnicos contribuyeron definir tanto el proyecto político como también su rol en escenario regional global concentra las organizaciones sociales dedicadas recuperación...
In Argentina, the organization of waste picker cooperatives has enabled these organizations to impose their approach and point view in system management derived from Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) model. this context, experience Autonomous City Buenos Aires (CABA) stands out, as it paved way for a co-management model that was unprecedented country. Since then, "Buenos System" been promoted by Argentine federation pickers (FACCyR), be implemented throughout The differences between...
Unlike the private companies that runs waste collection system, recovery and classification of carried out by cartoneros (waste pickers) in Buenos Aires metropolis has not yet been acknowledged as a “public service” (one main demands cartonero organizations). Their work is based on commercialization recovered materials for local global recycling industry market defined high levels intermediation incidence monopolies price formation. Consequently, profitability attained this first link chain...
Este artículo propone discutir la idea del diseño como algo único y universal al presentar los avances de un estudio etnográfico realizado en una cooperativa cartoneros (recuperadores urbanos) localizada el Gran Buenos Aires. Partiendo análisis escena etnográfica, reconstruimos las tramas que tejen experiencias cartoneras customizar materiales previamente descartados crear nuevas tecnologías para su tratamiento, abriendo perspectivas sobre prácticas desarrolladas desde sectores populares....
Este artículo comparte los resultados de un proyecto extensión universitaria cuyo principal objetivo consistió en desarrollar contenidos y metodologías destinados a fortalecer prácticas autogestionadas formación para la gestión colectiva del trabajo partir una dinámica colaborativa entre trabajadoras/es universidades cooperativas. La reflexión que proponemos se focaliza productividad cultural estas iniciativas disputar sentidos torno procesos capacitación el implementados experiencias. El...
El presente trabajo busca aportar a la problematizacion de politicas produccion y circulacion conocimientos, focalizando en participacion actores que han sido historicamente invisibilizados estos procesos. A partir una perspectiva teorico-metodologica recupera aportes situados etnografias curso con lectura atenta configuracion asimetrias epistemicas cognitivas derivadas del enfoque (in)justicia epistemica propuesto por Fricker (2007), repensamos nocion “dialogo saberes” terminos particular...