Acknowledgments

I am grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC Grant 435–2012–0673) and to Memorial University of Newfoundland for their support, which enabled me to write this book and to research the broader project of which it is part. It would have been impossible to conduct the substantial fieldwork required to follow discarded electronics, support graduate students, or have the necessary time for research and writing without the financial and material support both institutions provided.