The paper highlights three possible and quite common views held on waste in social sciences. This it does by using three authors: Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and François Dagognet. To conclude, it tells more explicitly what it means in social sciences to work with and on waste, what waste allows social scientists to do.
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