PlastiCorona: who cares about that waste?
- 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...
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| Author: | Kathrin Eitel |
|---|---|
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-621041 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12894 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8676 |
| Parent Title (English): | Social anthropology |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Place of publication: | Oxford [u.a.] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/05/22 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/05/22 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/08/25 |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 2 |
| First Page: | 261 |
| Last Page: | 262 |
| Note: | Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. WOA Institution: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. Blended DEAL: Projekt DEAL |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 489347002 |
| Institutes: | Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 36 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste / 360 Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste; Verbände |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
