Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
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Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
began to wonder whether each statute I encountered, each city code, each emerging community standard regarding waste and its reuse wasn’t in reality designed to eliminate any form of material
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
exploring the personal and political economy of scrounging as a means of survival.
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
seems to be a resistance to everyday domination defined less by anger and defiance than by dignity and humor.
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
requires something more than statistical aggregation or theoretical abstraction.
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
Might this tell us something about the seductions of marginality, the ambiguous line between the legal and the illegal, even the meaning of existence?
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
cultural reconstruction of the criminological enterprise.47
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
By definition and by practice, the work of these illicit trash scroungers remains marginal.