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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: 14/12/2021
    ISBN13: 9780520380943, 978-0520380943
    ISBN10: 0520380940
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    Waste management Sociology and anthropology Waste treatment and disposal

    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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