Catherine Alexander is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University. Before her current appointment, she worked at Goldsmiths for ten years. She has published widely on wastes and recycling - including Economies of Recycling, co-edited with Joshua Reno (Zed Books, 2012) - as well as economic and urban anthropology.

List of Figures

Introduction: The Values of Indeterminacy
Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez

Chapter 1. Kept in Suspense: The Unsettling Indeterminacy of US Landfills
Joshua O. Reno

Chapter 2. Experiments in Living: The Value of Indeterminacy in Trans Art
Elena Gonzalez-Polledo

Chapter 3. The Production of Indeterminacy: On the Unforeseeable Futures of Postindustrial Excess
Felix Ringel

Chapter 4. Human Waste in the Land of Abundance: Two Kinds of Gypsy Indeterminacy in Norway
Cathrine Moe Thorleiffson and Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Chapter 5. Waste People/Value Producers: Ambiguity, Indeterminacy and Postsocialist Russian-Speaking Miners
Eeva Kesküla

Chapter 6. Indeterminate Classifications: Being "More than Kin" in Kazakhstan
Catherine Alexander

Chapter 7. The Politics of Indeterminacy: Boundary Dislocations around Waste, Value and Work in Subic Bay (Philippines)
Elisabeth Schober

Epilogue: Indetertminacy: Between Worth and Worthlessness
Niko Besnier and Susana Narotzky

Index