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ArticleThe Journal of environment & development2021

Waste Pickers and Their Practices of Insurgency and Environmental Stewardship.

Jutta Gutberlet, Santiago Sorroche, Angela Martins Baeder, Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos

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Article in The Journal of environment & development, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Supporting plastic waste entrepreneurs in Semarang, Indonesia: Using a personal agency approach.Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jutta GutberletDepartment of Geography, University of Victoria (UVic), Victoria, BC, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4602-1483
Santiago SorrocheConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Centro de Innovación de los Trabajadores, Universidad Metropolitana para la Educación y el Trabajo, Sarmiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Angela Martins BaederEmeritus Faculty at the Department of Biology, University Foundation Santo André (FSA), Santo André, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Patrik ZapataSchool of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
María José Zapata CamposSchool of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Informed by different grassroots learning and educational practices engaged in waste management, and drawing from the concepts of insurgent citizenship and environmental stewardship, we examine the role of waste picker organizations and movements in creating new pathways towards more sustainable environmental waste governance. Two case studies (Argentina and Brazil) demonstrate how waste pickers inform and educate the general public and raise the awareness of socio-environmental questions related to waste management. Different educational practices are used as strategies to confront citizens with their waste: to see waste as a consumption problem, resource, and income source. Our paper draws on grassroots learning (social movement learning and insurgent learning) and education (stewardship) aimed at the transformation of waste practices. We argue that waste pickers play an important role in knowledge production promoting recycling, in landfilling less and recovering more resources. We conclude that waste pickers act as insurgent citizens and also are environmental stewards.

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environmental stewardshipinsurgencysustainabilitywastewaste pickers

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PMID34824524
PMCPMC8606804

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