Radical Anthropology<p>🌓Tuesday May 6 🌔 18:30 London time<br>ZOOM only with <a href="https://c.im/tags/ArbaBekteshi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArbaBekteshi</span></a><br>'Romani and Egyptians in Albania's Informal Recycling Economy'</p><p>Arba writes:'The recycling work of Romani and Egyptians in Albania provides a window into the lives of the estimated 20 - 56 million waste pickers globally. These informal workers are responsible for more than half of plastic recycling globally, helping to curb greenhouse gases and reduce plastic pollution in oceans. Yet in most countries, these essential workers operate in legal gray areas, and in some places, like Albania, their labor is illegal. At present, only 10 - 18% of Albania’s municipal waste is collected for recycling. </p><p>'This reality prompts the need for a reimagining of waste. By framing garbage as a commons, societies can reconsider our collective sense of responsibility toward waste and the vulnerable communities who process and recycle trash. Forming new shared approaches to trash disposal and recycling could inform equitable and sustainable waste management policies worldwide.'</p><p>Arba Bekteshi is an urban anthropologist, cultural researcher, and artist. Her work focuses on changing urban landscapes, negotiations of public and private spaces, citizen agency, and understandings of immanence in documentary film. Bekteshi uses multimodal and sensory ethnography, psychogeography, cartography, and other forms of arts-based research to engage with the ethnographic field. She holds an M.A. in the anthropology of development and social transformation from the University of Sussex. </p><p>This is ZOOM only, ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.<br>Everybody welcome.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/RomaniandEgyptian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RomaniandEgyptian</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Albania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Albania</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/recycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recycling</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/precariat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>precariat</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/urbananthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>urbananthropology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/waste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waste</span></a></p>