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Kathleen Sullivan
@kathlsullivan
Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. These days, I'm researching municipal garbage collection.
Nov 16, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
In 1908 a woman threatened to call the police on her garbage collector. @PatriciaStrach and I found a Karen in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. We recognize her as a resource local gov't could use @DiscardStudies #Discard2020 Source @_newspapers 1/10 Illustration in a newspaper, of a white woman in a bonnet an She peered out her window, donned her bonnet, ran to the street, invoking the police if he didn’t collect all her cans. Residents used the wrong containers, in the wrong location, on the wrong day. Sanitarian C. Chapin called this “the garbage can problem.” Karen could help 2/10