Introduction

Bremner, Natalia; Bahmad, Jamal

Abstract

Although the act of labelling cultural practices or products as trash is often framed as a casual dismissal based on self-evident assumptions, it can in fact be viewed as a mechanism which reflects, perpetuates and justifies the power dynamics of the social context. Trash theorists have argued that our relationship to material trash should be denaturalised and recognised as socioculturally situated, but should the same not also apply to our relationship to trash culture? The contributions to this special issue all aim to denaturalise trash cultures in the Francophone world through critical and reflexive analyses which tease out social and power dynamics specific to the social context in question.

Citation

Bremner, N., & Bahmad, J. (2017). Introduction. French Cultural Studies, 28(3), 241-247. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155817714118

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Jul 31, 2017
• Publication Date: 2017-08
• Deposit Date: Oct 25, 2017
• Journal: French Cultural Studies
• Print ISSN: 0957-1558
• Electronic ISSN: 1740-2352
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 241-247
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155817714118
• Keywords: Gender, race, sexuality, social class, trash culture, waste
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/981376