schaffer_wish_list_2


 * Short Term || Long Term ||
 * * Facilitate discussion about resource management in Troy; change resource management system in Troy.
 * Familiarize self with literatures from discard studies, environmental social movements, public engagement with science and technology.
 * Write things that bring insights from PEST and EST to discard studies
 * Familiarize self with ecological modernization debates and ecological economics.
 * Write things that critique contemporary waste systems and suggest better kinds of waste reform.
 * Familiarize self with literature on democratic governance of toxic waste. Write literature review on the topic for article w/ Abby Kinchy.
 * Keep detailed journal of own waste practices, experiences with waste systems, experiences with waste.
 * Keep detailed journal of experiences with Troy Compost and other advocates of waste reform.
 * Meet other people who are interested in waste reform and have different models of a better waste system. Befriend them. Build networks of waste reform advocates.
 * Take a master composter certification course.
 * Start a compost heap somewhere, one that works.
 * Throw away less stuff. Find ways to use food before it goes bad. Pickle everything. Mend old clothes. Buy less new stuff. Make my old stuff look great and taste delicious.
 * Learn how ANY municipal waste system came to be.
 * Talk to people about what throwing things away feels like.
 * Understand Abby Lublin.
 * Become friends with prominent waste studies scholars. || * 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, the processes by which people are made uninterested in things that affect them and the processes of policymaking are obscured from them.
 * Write a short guide to building sustainable, local, resource recovery systems that can be implemented in other cities. Co-author with Abby Lublin, write for popular audience.
 * Turn dissertation project into academic text locating Troy Compost activism in larger shifts in waste systems and elaborating the concept of waste stewardship.
 * Learn how people throw things away outside the US.
 * Write cookbook on how to use food once it has gone bad, or how to pickle it before it goes bad. Fuel a new generation of depression-era waste guilt.
 * Examine waste guilt outside the wasting subject and its possible applications within systems of production.
 * 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.
 * Write well, write often, write for public consumption.
 * Develop a voice.
 * Write contemplative investigative pieces à la Michael Pollan that work to understand mundane but pernicious sociotechnical systms, but less bourgeois than he tends to be, or more aware of these trappings; bring tropes of detective fiction in, but with more respect for the genre than Latour has in //Aramis//; become a discard //detective// in the most kitschy, hardboiled sense of the term, use these tropes to entertain and englighten. ||