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"By means of the book’s rich ethnographic accounts, Doherty. . . .makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the work that underlies the infrastructures that are so vital to contemporary societies." * Exertions *
"An expansive rendering of urban sanitation policies and problems in Kampala. . . . would certainly work well in an undergraduate course." * American Anthropologist *
"Evocative with a skilful poetic style. . . . Waste Worlds offers a way to think about waste that humanises waste workers and renders the complicated experience of waste for non-elite urban residents." * LSE Review of Books *

Table of Contents
Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface: “Don’t You Have Garbage in Your Country?”

Introduction
Disposability’s Infrastructure

Part I The Authority of Garbage
1. Accumulations of Authority
2. Tear Gas and Trash Trucks
3. Destructive Creation
4. Selfies of the State

Part II Away
5. Para-Sites
6. Legalizing Waste
7. Sink and Spill
8. Assembling the Waste Stream
9. Embodied Displacement

Part III Racializing Disposability
10. From Natives to Locals
11. Infrastructures of Feeling
12. Developmental Respectability
13. Waste in Time
14. Clean Hearts, Dirty Hands

Conclusion
Surplus, Embodiment, Displacement, and Contestation

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Waste Worlds Inhabiting Kampalas Infrastructures

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/12/2021
      ISBN13: 9780520380943, 978-0520380943
      ISBN10: 0520380940

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "By means of the book’s rich ethnographic accounts, Doherty. . . .makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the work that underlies the infrastructures that are so vital to contemporary societies." * Exertions *
      "An expansive rendering of urban sanitation policies and problems in Kampala. . . . would certainly work well in an undergraduate course." * American Anthropologist *
      "Evocative with a skilful poetic style. . . . Waste Worlds offers a way to think about waste that humanises waste workers and renders the complicated experience of waste for non-elite urban residents." * LSE Review of Books *

      Table of Contents
      Contents

      List of Illustrations
      Preface: “Don’t You Have Garbage in Your Country?”

      Introduction
      Disposability’s Infrastructure

      Part I The Authority of Garbage
      1. Accumulations of Authority
      2. Tear Gas and Trash Trucks
      3. Destructive Creation
      4. Selfies of the State

      Part II Away
      5. Para-Sites
      6. Legalizing Waste
      7. Sink and Spill
      8. Assembling the Waste Stream
      9. Embodied Displacement

      Part III Racializing Disposability
      10. From Natives to Locals
      11. Infrastructures of Feeling
      12. Developmental Respectability
      13. Waste in Time
      14. Clean Hearts, Dirty Hands

      Conclusion
      Surplus, Embodiment, Displacement, and Contestation

      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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