Plastic Bound: The Work and Wastes of a Modern Ubiquity
Name of applicant
Gauri Pathak
Title
Associate Professor
Institution
Aarhus University
Amount
DKK 862,403
Year
2025
Type of grant
Monograph Fellowships
Summary
This monograph will shed light on the ways that people and communities find themselves dependent upon plastics - the same materials that also harm their health and environments. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, it will illuminate the complicated everyday human interactions with plastics that are crucial to debates related to sustainable growth, the just transition, and planetary health.