This book is about the flourishing scrap recycling industry, reconstruction, and state-making in Iraqi Kurdistan within the wider conditions of the war economy, ruination, and state disintegration in Iraq. Through a dialectical relationship between the afterlife and continuity of war over...

Intro -- Urban and Industrial Environments Series -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Histories of the Dustheap -- Part I The Subjectivities of Garbage -- 1 Darker Shades of Green: Love Canal, Toxic Autobiography, and American Environmental Writing -- 2 "The Most Radical View of the...