Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century #6)

By: Jacob Doherty

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Synopsis: Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes these struggles. In the densely inhabited social infrastructures in and around the city's waste streams, people, places, and things become disposable but conditions of disposability are also challenged and undone. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, Jacob Doherty illustrates how waste makes worlds, offering the key intervention that disposability is best understood not existentially, as a condition of social exclusion, but infrastructurally, as a form of injurious social inclusion.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 288 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780520380967
Related ISBNs:: 9780520380950, 9780520380943
Publisher:: University of California Press
Date of Addition:: 12/14/21
Copyrighted By:: Jacob Doherty
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Technology, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government, Sociology
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