쓰레기의 정동 정치: 한국 현대의 쓰레기 정책을 중심으로

초록

Affective politics deals with the mutual arrangement of affective forces within the relations between entities. The affective politics of waste elucidates the affective patterns that emerge in the relationship between humans and non-human waste. These affective patterns—such as discarding, repulsion, and invisibilization—possess historicity. Rather than being fleeting feelings that appear and disappear momentarily, they accumulate over time and are strategically utilized in waste policies. In contemporary Korean history, the affective politics of waste invented affective apparatuses to push away and invisibilize loathsome objects. Apparatuses such as the Joeosun Waste Removal Ordinance, the Waste Cleaning Act, and the Environmental Preservation Act constructed policy realities by leveraging the affect of loathing associated with waste. Since the 1930s, these apparatuses have focused on the disposal and management of waste. Around the 1970s, as the waste problem shifted from a matter of disposal and management to one of environmental pollution and preservation, the affect of waste transformed from mere ‘filth’ to ‘filth and danger’. Accordingly, the affective patterns of waste were rearranged. The developmental dictatorship regime translated the threat of waste into an environmental issue and preemptively designated the Nanjido landfill. This was a violent policy that formalized only the method of landfilling and reduced complex environmental issues to a mere matter of waste disposal. The affective politics of waste elucidates these historical and political realities.

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