Garbarge Citizenship : Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal / Rosalind Fredericks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fredericks, Rosalind, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In 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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Trash Matters

One. Governing Disposability

Two. Vital Infrastructures of Labor

Three. Technologies of Community

Four. The Piety of Refusal

Conclusion. Garbage Citizenship

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091622

1478091622

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access