Overview

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 belongs 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.

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Author:   Jacob Doherty
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780520380943

ISBN 10:   0520380940
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   14 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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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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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 *

Author Information

Jacob Doherty is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh.

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