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Waste worlds : inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability / Jacob Doherty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doherty, Jacob, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; Volume 6.
- Atelier ; Volume 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refuse and refuse disposal--Uganda--Kampala.
- Refuse and refuse disposal.
- Infrastructure (Economics)--Uganda--Kampala.
- Infrastructure (Economics).
- Urban renewal--Uganda--Kampala.
- Urban renewal.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- 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 belong 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Doherty, Jacob Waste Worlds
- ISBN:
- 9780520380967
- 0520380967
- OCLC:
- 1281958346
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