E-Waste Dissertation Research

    Global and interdisciplinary research on e-waste: ethnographic studies in Germany, India, and across social media platforms. Key for this research is a book I published: Hightech at the end. Hightech at the end examines the global recycling of electronic waste by studying multiple sites: ethnographic observations help unravel political negotiations on sustainability in India, the in-house value chain of a German recycling company is scrutinized, and a failed Google innovation is discussed.

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