From the cult of waste to the trash heap of history : the politics of waste in socialist and postsocialist Hungary /
Zsuzsa Gille.
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2007.
- x, 250 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Was state socialism wasteful? -- Toward a social theory of waste -- Discipline and recycle (1948-1974) -- Metallic socialism -- The primitive accumulation of waste in metallic socialism -- Reform and reduce (1975-1984) -- The efficiency model -- The limits of efficiency -- Privatize and incinerate (1985-present) -- The chemical model -- "Building a castle out of shit": the wastelands of the new Europe -- Conclusion.