This is the project page for our Marsden-funded research on emerging waste subjectivities in Aotearoa New Zealand, Reduce, Reuse, Repair: Emerging waste subjectivities for postcapitalist economies.
Conventional approaches to waste reduction focus on getting individuals to change their attitudes and behaviours, often through actions like recycling. This research focuses on the ways that people are acting together to reduce waste and bring about collective change.
Team
- Professor Kelly Dombroski (Massey University )
- Dr Gradon Diprose (Bioeconomy Science Institute)
- Dr Matthew Scobie (Ngāi Tahu, University of Canterbury)
- Dr Lila Laird (Massey University).
Methods
Through collective inquiry groups and wānanga, the team will explore how organisations enable shared practices of waste reduction, including with the Zero Waste Network, Para Kore (a marae-based zero-waste initiative) and Repair Network Aotearoa.
Outcomes
In partnership with these organisations, we seek out examples of innovative waste-reducing practices and co-develop an action plan to promote waste reduction in Aotearoa.
Latest posts from this project
Introducing a new project: Reduce, Reuse, Repair: Emerging waste subjectivities for postcapitalist economies
By Dr Lila Laird, Postdoctoral Researcher, Massey University What is the project about? We are embarking on a project that traces how groups of people move up the ‘waste hierarchy’ and how such transformations shape people’s sense of self in relation to waste. This matters because issues like microplastic pollution, environmental contaminant leaching, and dwindling…
Researching Postcapitalist Possibilities 