Conclusion

Abstract

To conclude the book, it will be argued that a pyropolitical ecology of e-waste informed by ethnography, while imperfect, constitutes a possible route for renewing and rethinking e-waste management and intervention. Engaging a situated anthropology and political ecology of e-waste shows that certain toxic truths and struggles drift and link to truths and justice struggles beyond Agbogbloshie and Ghana. Despite the hyper-negativity and toxic colonialism that fuel Ghana’s e-wasteland narrative, the author concludes the book with a challenging exploratory question: how can a pyropolitical ecology of e-waste provide a new starting point to develop a global e-waste perspective attuned to possibilities and sparks of hope informed by ethnographic attention and evidence?