Autore
Minervini, Dario

Titolo
Waste Valuation Performed by Socio-Technical Connections
Periodico
Sociologica
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 17 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 0

Waste governance in Italy is characterized by a pluralisation of private and publicactors, institutional levels of responsibility, organizational and technological ways of waste management.Ecological modernization seems to inspire a heterogeneous and changeable assemblageof actors pursuing the economic valorisation of waste through an integrated system of wastedisposal plants and technologies. In this paper the sociological framework developed by MichelCallon is adopted to reconstruct and analyse the dynamics allowing two different governancenetworks to perform waste valorisation. Using the narrative approach, two episodes regardinga waste-to-energy plant and a practice of collecting and processing of waste glass in two localitiesin the South of Italy are presented. It is argued that the shift from the normative model ofgovernance to the "governance in the making" is useful to grasp the internal functioning of theecological modernization. The economic valorisation of waste is interpreted both as a processof co-construction that enacts and is enacted by an emergent group of actors that shape wastemanagement and organization and as a specific perspective in terms of what effectiveness andvalue are.



SICI: 1971-8853(2012)17:3<0:WVPBSC>2.0.ZU;2-4
Testo completo: http://www.mulino.it/download/article/10.2383/72703
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