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)
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)
if this is true of people and the situations in which they find themselves, it seems to me, it’s also true of objects.
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
Fluidity between applying theory to people and to objects
the morality of this work is also marginal;
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)
reclaimed some of the categories of meaning and morality that set my
Jeff Ferrell • Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging (Alternative Criminology)
This marginality is spatial as well;
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.