About

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The Project

The Podcast Series was developed in the context of a BA research seminar on “Networked Pathways of Waste” and an MA seminar on “Life and Death in the Anthropocene. Waste in and out of Pericapitalist Sites” led by Kathrin Eitel. The episodes went online in the summer of 2021.

The Contributors

These are students of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology (BA) and from the Science and Technology Studies program (MA) at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Specifically, the following have contributed (in the order of the podcast episodes): Dijan Tatli, Jonathan Greenleaf, Andreas Jung (Episode 1: The actors in the disposal process), Lena Dittmayer and Hannah Schlichter (Episode 2: Recycling), Luis Wahls, Moritz Deubener (Episode 3: Food Savers*), Rafailia Tsarouchidou, Cansel Güvenc and Noah Schulz (Episode 4: Zero Waste), Clarissa Ferreira Logrado Matos, Paula Georg and Leonard Schwanig (Episode 5: Old Clothes), Milena Rossmeier, Yusuf Yesilöz, Maximilian Schicktanz (Episode 6: Hazardous Waste), Franca Ratz and Enrico Amoroso (Episode 7: Phosphorus Recovery from Sewage Sludge ), Alisha Kaiser, Emily Christina Karsten, Noah Fischer and Cedrik Tuska (Episode 8: Microplastics), Gauri Natarajan and Hannah Piehl (Episode 9: Queer Ecologies), Hendrik Iding (Episode 10: Food waste), Natascha Köster and Khumo Tlhaboloa (Episode 11: Informal Waste Economies).