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Waste(d) collectors : politics of urban exclusion in Mumbai / Sneha Sharma.
Van Pelt Library HN690.M26 S53 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharma, Sneha, author.
- Series:
- Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
- Urban studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marginality, Social--India--Mumbai.
- Marginality, Social.
- Urban poor--India--Mumbai.
- Urban poor.
- Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects--India--Mumbai.
- Refuse and refuse disposal.
- Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects.
- India--Mumbai.
- Physical Description:
- 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : Transcript, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Modern waste disposal systems in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems, colonial histories and neoliberal logics which operate by reproducing existing social hierarchies. Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste disposal in Mumbai, India, by undertaking an ethnographic journey to the city's most unwanted space, a dumping site. She challenges the dominant techno-managerial paradigm in waste management and reveals how spaces and people are made into waste through exclusionary social practices. Offering new insights on topics of urban marginality, informality, and urban planning, this book will attract scholars from sociology, urban studies, and human geography"--Publisher's website.
- Notes:
- "The research for this book was part of a doctoral thesis at the Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany ... defended on: 21.01.2020"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-245).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783837658248
- 3837658244
- OCLC:
- 1338686639
- Publisher Number:
- 10.14361/9783839458242
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