Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy organized a session entitled Burn it. Bury it, Or send it on a Caribbean Cruise at the ACSA 101: New Constellations/ New Ecologies. The panel examines technologies of waste management at a geographic scale. It raises a provocation: if the abstraction of space conceals the political and ecological imperatives of waste, can the geographic as paradigm inscribe trash within design and public concerns? The papers examine the spaces of burial, mass burning, abandonment, and recycling of economic excess. By formalizing and materializing the relations of trash and space, the panel investigates how geographic imaginaries reclaim trash as “matter in place.”
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