Vinča Apocalypse: Necroecologies of Eventful Waste in Postsocialist Serbia

Considering that as much as 99% of waste ends up in legal and illegal landfills in Serbia, the short (non-)organic life of waste requires particular attention. The article shows that the ontology of waste needs to be critically rethought in order to properly understand such an anthropogenic matter and the ways in which it interacts with the human, the more-than-human and the other-than-human. Waste is rethought as constitutive of postsocialist necroecologies, those naturalcultural (a)biotic assemblages that, through the complexly sedimented effects of forms of governance, produce spatio-temporal environmental conditions that lead to the maiming, incapacitation, and slow death of certain (non)human actors.