ABSTRACT

This paper advances existing research on both the geographies of fashion and the geographies of waste, utilising their shared interests in commodity biography. Empirically, it documents the use of textile waste from export-oriented garment factories in the peri-urban areas of Phnom Penh, Cambodia as fuel for nearby brick-kilns supplying the city’s booming construction sector. Interviews and documentary photography present the forms of living, labour and harm at both the brick-kilns and the garment dump from which the textile waste is sourced. Substantively, the paper argues for the consideration of preconsumer garment waste to complement the dominant preoccupation with postconsumer waste and reuse. Conceptually, the paper argues for geographical biographies of commodity culture that are attentive to things’ material dynamics of becoming, unbecoming and transformation across spaces, sectors and material forms: that is, to their ‘patch geographies’.

摘要

本文利用他们在商品传记中的共同兴趣，推进了对时尚地理学和废物地理学的现有研究。根据经验，它记录了柬埔寨金边郊区以出口为导向的服装厂的纺织废料用作附近砖窑的燃料，为该市蓬勃发展的建筑业提供燃料。采访和纪实摄影展示了砖窑和纺织废料来源的服装垃圾场的生活、劳动和伤害形式。实质上，该论文主张考虑消费前服装废物以补充对消费后废物和再利用的主要关注。从概念上讲，本文主张商品文化的地理传记关注事物的物质生成动力，