Garbage citizenship : vital infrastructures of labor in Dakar, Senegal / Rosalind Fredericks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fredericks, Rosalind, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation--Senegal--Dakar.

Political participation.

Labor--Senegal--Dakar.

Labor.

Working poor--Political activity--Senegal--Dakar.

Working poor.

Refuse collection--Senegal--Dakar.

Refuse collection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC Duke University Press 2018

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as the city's trash collectors and ordinary residents protest urban austerity. Often drawing on discourses of Islamic piety, garbage activists have provided a powerful language to critique a neoliberal mode of governing-through-disposability and assert rights to fair labor. In Garbage Citizenship Rosalind Fredericks traces Dakar's volatile trash politics to recalibrate how we understand urban infrastructure by emphasizing its material, social, and affective elements. She shows how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identities and mobilizing political action.

Contents:

Introduction: trash matters

Governing disposability

Vital infrastructures of labor

Technologies of community

The piety of refusal

Conclusion: garbage citizenship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478002505

1478002506

OCLC:

1105785109