@clee_max

University Lecturer | from Edinburgh, Scotland | Writing about garbage: disposal, collection, processing, etc.

 New York
Joined November 2019
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Excited to present this weekend at the @ASEH_org conference in Denver! Look out for our panel “Wastescapes: Managing Excess in the Twentieth-Century United States” where I’ll be talking about San Francisco’s “palace of garbage” alongside some super other scholars! @BUAmnesp #aseh
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Here’s a picture of Len Stefanelli, “boss scavenger” of San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s, as he shows off his pride and joy — the “palace of garbage” transfer station built by the scavengers in 1970.
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The presentation will cover the contentious battles with locals and environmentalists that led to the construction of the transfer station, and how it transformed the city’s waste disposal regime.
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Does anyone know if there's a name for the literary device where the writer refers to the real world in the present as if it was a fable/myth? i.e. "once upon a time, there were a fabled people who... made things for the singular purpose of throwing them away"
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Excited to teach my first class of my own design this fall @BUAmnesp! Registration open now!
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Looking to spend a couple of weeks to a month in NYC for research — anyone know of an academic house-swap service or something? I can offer the enticing prospect of spending late-winter in Boston, MA!
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Saw Keerthi Potluri talk about a favourite topic of mine, Fresh Kills landfill/park on Staten Island. Looking at how the landscape memorializes garbage instead of the violent legacies of colonialism and 9/11, Potluri critiqued “green” settler modernity. #2022ASA #discardstudies
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Excited to travel to the crescent city today to present at the #2022ASA, eat a mufaletta, and drink a vieux carré! I’ll be posting through the weekend about all things waste studies and @BUAmnesp.
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Successful day at the JFK building today — my green card was approved AND hope and I saw @SenWarren in the halls!!
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Unironically in love with the landscape of the Olympic big air competition. Hard not to read as a Chinese critique of skiing culture.
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Rewatching Bill Forsythe's Local Hero for Boxing Day. What a great film and a fantastic angle on 1980s #ColdWar culture
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So many years!
Scotland National Team
@ScotlandNT12 Nov 2020
🎶 Oh, yes sir... 🎶 #NoScotlandNoParty
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For #Museum30 #Scribble here's some blindfolded drawings of pigs made by polar explorer & oceanographer William Speirs Bruce & his crew in 1898-99 during their voyage on the Princess Alice to the Norwegian island Spitsbergen from @NtlMuseumsScot library archives
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Also I have so much love for ripping into charmingly badly wrapped second hand books -- somehow much more exciting than the Amazon box
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