Introduction : the values of indeterminacy / Catherine Alexander and Andrew Sanchez -- Kept in suspense : the unsettling indeterminacy of U.S. landfills / Joshua O. Reno -- Experiments in living : the value of indeterminacy in trans art / Elena Gonzalez-Polledo -- The production of indeterminacy : on the unforeseeable futures of post-industrial excess / Felix Ringel -- Human waste in the land of abundance : two kinds of gypsy indeterminacy in Norway / Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Cathrine Moe Thorleiffson -- Waste people/value producers : ambiguity, indeterminacy and post-socialist Russian-speaking miners / Eeva Keskula -- Indeterminate classifications : being 'more than kin' in Kazakhstan / Catherine Alexander -- The politics of indeterminacy : boundary dislocations around waste, value and work in Subic Bay (Philippines) / Elisabeth Schober -- Epilogue : indeterminacy between worth and worthlessness / Niko Besnier and Susana Narotzky.