Louise Rondel 2026. Plastic Effects: The “Ongoing Process” of Hair Removal and the Multiple Temporalities of Plastic Pots. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology. 69 (3), pp. 92-114. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2025.690305
| Title | Plastic Effects: The “Ongoing Process” of Hair Removal and the Multiple Temporalities of Plastic Pots |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Louise Rondel |
| Abstract | Examining how the polypropylene pots in which depilatory wax is packaged are active in the production of ‘feminine’ hairlessness in London's beauty salons and what happens as they are disposed of and incinerated, this article focuses on the making of bodies to explore plastic's temporalities. Centering the materiality of the plastic packaging (strong, light, flexible, replaceable, disposable), the article explores what the pots are and so what the pots do: what they effect, including how plastic comes to configure bodies in different and potentially harmful ways. Considering how plastic endures in bodies brings to the fore its multiple temporalities, heterochronic, layered and folded into one another. |
| Journal | Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology |
| Journal citation | 69 (3), pp. 92-114 |
| ISSN | 0155-977X |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Journals |
| Publisher's version | License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2025.690305 |
| Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2025.690305 |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 01 Sep 2025 |