ELECTRONIC WASTE FROM MINE TO DISCARD AND BACK AGAIN
Geographies of
Digital Wasting
Geographies of Digital Wasting threads together four sites spread across the globe, each sitting at distinct points in the digital supply chain, and illustrates how waste comes to be differentially defined, contested, operationalized, and resisted across these sites.
KEY POINTS
NORTHERN VIRGINIA / SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Operation
Interrogates the politics and process of wasting in and around data centers and warehouses in Virginia and Southern California.
SILICON VALLEY / TAIWAN
Manufacturing
Explores the history, present, and futures of semiconductor manufacturing in Silicon Valley and Taiwan.
SOUTHERN GREENLAND
Extraction
Investigates the controversy surrounding the building of a rare earth mine in Narsaq, Greenland.
ZIMBABWE
Discard
Documents the growing post consumer ewaste program problem in Zimbabwe, and the political efforts to contain it.
