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Waste, Environmental Politics and Dis/Engaged Publics by Hird, Myra J

“…Waste is a major global environmental issue that assembles socio-cultural and bio-geological processes in complex indeterminate relationships. Drawing on three…”
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Raven, Dog, Human: Inhuman Colonialism and Unsettling Cosmologies by Zahara, Alexander R. D., Hird, Myra J.

“…As capitalism's unintended, and often unacknowledged, fallout, humans have developed sophisticated technologies to squirrel away our discards: waste is buried,…”
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Knowing Waste: Towards an Inhuman Epistemology by Hird, Myra J.

“…Ten years after the publication of the special issue of Social Epistemology on feminist epistemology, this paper explores recent feminist interest in the…”
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Waste, Landfills, and an Environmental Ethic of Vulnerability by Hird, Myra J

“…Western landfills are sites of forgetting made possible through legislative decision, regulative decree, risk models, community accession, and engineering…”
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Meeting with the Microcosmos by Hird, Myra J

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Indifferent Globality: Gaia, Symbiosis and 'Other Worldliness' by Hird, Myra J

“…Nigel Clark's 'ex-orbitant globality' concerns the incalculability of other-than-human forces we typically fail to acknowledge, yet which haunt all…”
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Coevolution, Symbiosis and Sociology by Hird, Myra J.

“…Most sociological analyses adhere to the Western bifurcation of nature and culture, hampering analyses of ecology. Pressing ecological crises invite…”
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Making waste management public (or falling back to sleep) by Hird, Myra J, Lougheed, Scott, Rowe, R Kerry, Kuyvenhoven, Cassandra

“…Human-produced waste is a major environmental concern, with communities considering various waste management practices, such as increased recycling,…”
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Schrödinger’s placenta: Determining placentas as not/waste by Yoshizawa, Rebecca Scott, Hird, Myra J

“…An estimated 50 million kilograms of human placental material is produced worldwide every year. In countries such as Canada, human placentas are utilized in…”
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The Corporeal Generosity of Maternity by Hird, Myra J.

“…Feminist analyses have made important contributions to the sociocultural experiences of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. This article draws upon recent…”
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Modes of governing Canadian waste management: a case study of Metro Vancouver's energy-from-waste controversy by Lougheed, Scott Cameron, Metuzals, Jessica, Hird, Myra J.

“…Managing municipal solid waste is a pressing environmental and political concern for Canadian municipalities who bear the primary responsibility for waste…”
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Feminism theorises the nonhuman by Hird, Myra J., Roberts, Celia

“…Introduces a special journal issue on feminism and the nonhuman. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]…”
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Governing Household Waste Management: An Empirical Analysis and Critique by Lougheed, Scott Cameron, Hird, Myra J., Rowe, Kerry R.

“…We conducted a survey of residents of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, (n = 107) to understand their attitudes to and experiences of waste management and governance…”
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Feminist Engagements with Matter by Hird, Myra J.

“…[...] engagement attempts dialogue, conversation, and collaboration with science as it engages with science-in-the-making, and it has had to formulate…”
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Food security and secure food in the Anthropocene by Lougheed, Scott Cameron, Hird, Myra J.

“…Discussions of the Anthropocene often position the human species as acting with such profound force as to have impacted the planet at a material, geological…”
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Risk for cardiovascular disease after pre-eclampsia: differences in Canadian women and healthcare provider perspectives on knowledge sharing by Hird, Myra J., Yoshizawa, Rebecca Scott, Robinson, Sandra, Smith, Graeme, Walker, Mark

“…A research-to-practice gap was identified in a study on knowledge sharing regarding future cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk associated with a previous…”
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Considerations for a Psychoanalytic Theory of Gender Identity and Sexual Desire: The Case of Intersex by Hird, Myra J.

“…Hird relates her speculations about the utility of developing a psychoanalytic approach to intersex. She argues that although Freudian psychoanalytic,…”
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Inorganic Becomings: Situating the Anthropocene in Puchuncaví by Tironi, Manuel, Hird, Myra J., Simonetti, Cristián, Forman, Peter, Freiburger, Nathaniel

“…In this choral essay we, an assorted group of academics interested in inorganic life and matter, explore a mode of thinking and feeling our objects of…”
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Indifferent Globality by Hird, Myra J.

“…Nigel Clark’s ‘ex-orbitant globality’ concerns the incalculability of other-than-human forces we typically fail to acknowledge, yet which haunt all…”
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For a Sociology of Transsexualism by Hird, Myra J.

“…The aim of this article is to explore the development of theories on transsexualism with a view to advancing a typology of theories of transsexualism. This…”
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