Thread by @AlexSouchen

1/ This was a long-time in the making, but the Special Issue on "Waste Economies Under Wartime Conditions: A Transnational Perspective on #recycling and #WW2" was just published by @BH__journal

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#twitterstorians #discardstudies #waste #history #SWW

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2/ The introduction by Chad Denton & Heike Weber places the history of waste & recycling into an international context. It argues that we need to rethink waste's role in #bizhist & the role of salvage and reverse logistics in the history of #WW2 #SWW

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3/ In "Nazi German waste recovery and the vision of a circular economy" Weber explores the waste economy inside the Nazi state & shows how waste reclamation was an integral part of Nazi ideological and racial worldviews.

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4/ Denton's "Korean kuzuya, 'German-style control' and the business of waste in wartime Japan, 1931-1945" shows how wartime conditions reshaped the waste economy in #Japan & how the Japanese government asserted control over prices & supply chains.

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5/ Michael Kim's "The Brassware industry and the salvage campaigns of wartime colonial Korea (1937-1945)" explores how the colonial state coordinated a salvage program for strategic metals by encouraging people to part with their household brassware.

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6/ Birgitte Beck Pristed's "Point of no return: Soviet paper reuse, 1932-1945" investigates how the communists approached waste recycling & how the German invasion disrupted the waste paper & printing industries in Russia.

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7/ Peter Thorsheim's "Trading with the enemy? The flow of scrap between Britain and Germany from pre-war rearmament to post-war reconstruction" examines the trade in ferrous scrap & demonstrates its economic, strategic, and diplomatic importance.

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8/ And finally, in my article, "Recycling war machines: Canadian munitions disposal, reverse logistics, and economic recovery after #WW2" I show how Allied governments divested surplus assets & how weaponry was recycled into peaceful purposes.

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9/ Many thanks to @BH__journal, as well as Chad Denton & Heike Weber for leading this project & getting it across the finish line!