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Aug 31, 2015 · If there's a divorce, they might find photos of the former spouse thrown out. Or if someone has had a drinking problem, it's reflected in the bottles. Or when babies arrive, disposable diapers...
This astonishing statistic is just one of the reasons Robin Nagle started a research project with the city's Department of Sanitation. She walked the routes, operated mechanical brooms, even drove a garbage truck herself--all so she could answer a simple-sounding but complicated question: who cleans up after us?
Sep 1, 2010 · Since 2006, Robin Nagle has been the anthropologist-in-residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY). She is the first to hold this title (though DSNY has had an artist-in-residence since 1977), which, the department claims, makes it the city’s “sole uniformed force… with its own social scientist.”
Sep 19, 2013 · In the first of a series of city-related articles, we profile Robin Nagle, anthropologist-in-residence at the Department of Sanitation and long-time resident of New York City. She describes a life dedicated to, well, trash.
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Jul 29, 2013 · Robin Nagle, a self-described “P.K. — preacher’s kid,” offers a benediction for the city’s sanitation workers. She has even inscribed it in a book that she wrote about them.
May 18, 2017 · Everyone who is not Robin Nagle: Learn from her about new ways to think about waste, to deal with it yourself, and to look at the sanitation workers in your street – literally, look at them. To research New York City’s waste, a social scientist might first read, look at data, talk to people.
Oct 1, 2010 · October 1, 2010. 2 min read. Trash Is Her Treasure: A Profile of a Sanitation Anthropologist. A New York University anthropologist discusses why she has spent the past four years working alongside...
