De l'or dans nos poubelles
De l'or dans nos poubelles
De l'or dans nos poubelles
De l'or dans nos poubelles

Gold in our garbage

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De l'or dans nos poubelles (Gold in our garbage) is a richly illustrated book that brings together Freud, Jung, Nietzsche, Pasteur, Prefect Poubelle and the Amazonian Indians... A definitively optimistic book that proposes concrete solutions and changes in behavior with a view to healthy and profitable enrichment for mankind and the planet.

 

Gold in our garbage
It's time to change our relationship with waste.

Olivier Bonjean proves it: it's a source of social integration, social ties, appropriation of space, individual enhancement within a community, collective empowerment, emancipation in the face of oppression, and also of income and employment. How is this possible? The author looks back at the history of waste, from ancient times to the present day. Originally, in agrarian civilizations, human waste was mainly organic.
Recycling it was a matter of course. It was even sacred, as it was associated with fertility and reproduction. The author shows how industrialization and urbanization in the 19th century turned this situation on its head, creating a rupture in our perceptions, production and treatment of waste, and perverting our relationship with garbage. Drawing on psychoanalysis, ethnology, sociology and urban planning, Olivier Bonjean shows that analysis of the presence of waste reveals a group's social organization, its respect for the rules that govern it, and its individual and collective relationship with hygiene.
For example, the abundance of waste in certain areas illustrates a deep-seated social malaise. Individuals or communities, spatially excluded, throw it away in turn, signalling their rejection of the place and their social malaise. Looking at waste as a symptom offers a genuine form of urban therapy. The author takes a positive view of both waste and its treatment. In Fortaleza, Brazil, he was the promoter of a highly successful economic and social project. The men of this previously unemployed favela organized a waste recovery program, collecting and selling waste. The result: income, reappropriation of space, a new social, economic and community organization, and impressive individual self-improvement. Today, Olivier Bonjean claims that two million jobs could be created in Europe based on this model.

Further information:
Edition: Carbonnier Quillateau
Author: Olivier Bonjean
ISBN 978-2-918-09019-9

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Weight :
0.9 kg
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