Wish+List

Guy Schaffer :: Memo 2 :: Wish List
 * Short Term || Long Term ||
 * * Facilitate discussion about resource management in Troy; change resource management system in Troy.
 * Interact productively with civic engagement literature. Build on strategies that can promote Citizen’s Working Group techniques in other areas.
 * Engage with social construction of waste literature, discard studies: if the construction of waste is revelatory of the values of a culture, what do movements toward resource management (as opposed to waste management) reveal about contemporary society?
 * Engage with ecological modernization theory: do neoliberal-leaning compost related practices (privatization of waste hauling, the development of large-scale facilities, pay-as-you-throw systems that charge residents more money for more trash, etc.) support environmental ends or simply commercial ends?
 * Engage with literature on expertise re: composting as a technoscientific process. Why do understandings of composting vary between different regions and people, how do Master Composter programs and large-scale composting programs streamline a form of knowledge and practice that tends to be more organic.
 * Engage with practice theory in regards to household/workplace disposal: why do different waste practices in daily life change or remain constant? Why don’t more resources get conserved or reused within households? How do you research changes in widespread waste-related practices?
 * Promote discussion about resource management elsewhere than Troy; contribute to development of more wide-spread changes in resource management by encouraging development of localized systems.
 * Investigate civic disengagement. Investigate municipal government with an eye for public understanding of policymaking process.
 * Investigate how changes to the construction and production of waste change people’s practices outside the realm of waste.
 * Generate publicly accessible (but theoretically rigorous) writing on waste and other topics, pieces of writing that verge on entertaining.
 * Generate enter/edutainment media (comics, video) that investigates waste and related topics. Need not be as theoretically rigorous. || * Promote discussion about resource management elsewhere than Troy; contribute to development of more wide-spread changes in resource management by encouraging development of localized systems.
 * Investigate civic disengagement. Investigate municipal government with an eye for public understanding of policymaking process.
 * Investigate how changes to the construction and production of waste change people’s practices outside the realm of waste.
 * Generate publicly accessible (but theoretically rigorous) writing on waste and other topics, pieces of writing that verge on entertaining.
 * Generate enter/edutainment media (comics, video) that investigates waste and related topics. Need not be as theoretically rigorous. ||