{"product_id":"waste-works-9781478019589","title":"Waste Works","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWaste Works\u003c\/i\u003e, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana’s planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life. Chalfin argues that at Tema’s midcentury founding, a prime objective of governing authorities was to cultivate self-contained citizens by means of tightly orchestrated domestic infrastructure and centralized control of bodily excrement to both develop and depoliticize the new nation. Comparing infrastructural innovations across the city, Chalfin excavates how Tema residents pursue novel approaches to urban waste and sanitation built on the ruins of the inherited order, profoundly altering the urban public sphere. Once decreed a private matter to be guaranteed by state authorities, excrement becomes a public issue, collectively managed by private persons. Pushing self-care into public space and extending domestic responsibility for public well-being and bodily outputs, popularly devised waste infrastructur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  vii\u003cbr\u003e Preface  xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Infrastructural Intimacies: The Vital Politics of Waste in Urban Ghana  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Assembling the New City: From Infrastructure to Vital Politics  45\u003cbr\u003e 2. Tema Proper: Infrastructures and Intimacies of Disrepair  96\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Right(s) to Remains: Excremental Infrastructure and Exception in Tema Manhean  133\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ziginshore: Infrastructure and the Commonwealth of Waste  181\u003cbr\u003e 5. Dwelling on Toilets: Tema's Breakaway Republic of Ashaiman  212\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. From Vital Politics to Deep Domesticity: Infrastructure as Political Experiment  268\u003cbr\u003e Notes  295\u003cbr\u003e References  315\u003cbr\u003e Index  339","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867288318295,"sku":"9781478019589","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019589.jpg?v=1722282613","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/waste-works-9781478019589","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}