TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eitel, Kathrin
T1  - PlastiCorona: who cares about that waste?
T2  - Social anthropology
N2  - Garbage piles up in the capital of Cambodia; it lies around in corners, on streets, in fields. COVID-19, which has led to a global reduction in the production of greenhouse gases considered utopian, has had little if any significant impact within this country, where garbage is produced in the same amounts, likewise burned and buried, or dumped into the rivers. The smelly sewage channels of Phnom Penh run as brown as usual, patterned with flip-flops, shampoo packaging, diverse plastic particles, and undefinable fragments of rubbish, travelling south-eastwards into the morning glory fields; passing by buzzing, still active markets, passing urban poor areas, where children play in the thick mud, passing citizens in facemasks. On 10 April, the Cambodian government counted some 120 official cases of COVID-19 infection among its populace...
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62104
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-621041
SN  - 1469-8676
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. WOA Institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Blended DEAL: Projekt DEAL
VL  - 28
IS  - 2
SP  - 261
EP  - 262
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford [u.a.]
ER  -