Polluted Politics examines the global conundrum of e-waste recycling through the remarkable case of the Palestinian-Israeli context, showing how the emergence, impacts and possible futures of the Palestinian informal hub that has recycled most of Israel's e-waste for two decades illuminates dynamics and dilemmas of similar places worldwide.
This book describes the politically charged afterlife of Israeli electronics gathered by and processed in a cluster of rural Palestinian villages that has emerged as an informal regional e-waste hub. As with many such hubs throughout the global South, rudimentary recycling practices represent a remarkable entrepreneurial means of livelihood amidst poverty and constraint, that generates staggering damage to local health and the environment, with tensions between these reaching a breaking point. John-Michael Davis and Yaakov Garb draw on a decade of community-based action research with and within these villages to contextualise the emergence, realities and future options of the Palestinian hub within both the geo-political realities of Israel's occupation of the West Bank as well as shifting understandings of e-waste and recycling dynamics and policies globally. Their stories and analysis are a poignant window into this troubled region and a key sustainability challenge in polarized globalized world.
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Polluted Politics chronicles research into the emergence and impacts of the Israeli-Palestinian e-waste economy and pathways for change.
Acknowledgements; Part I. Positioning E-waste Hubs:
1. The emergence of e-waste hubs;
2. The west line e-waste economy;
3. Crude portrayals, crude proposals;
4. Co-creating e-waste hub futures;
5. Can tails wag the dog? a hub-driven approach to e-waste reform; Part II. Pathways and Predicaments:
6. E-waste burning: causes, consequences, and corrections;
7. The toxic elephant in the room;
8. Border frictions: formalizing the Palestinian e-waste industry?;
9. Open questions, opening futures; References; Index.
John-Michael Davis is an Assistant Professor in The Global School at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the Memorial University of Newfoundland. Yaacov Garb is a Professor of Interdisciplinary environmental research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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