Rubbish belongs to the poor : hygienic enclosure and the waste commons / Patrick O'Hare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Hare, Patrick, author.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society.

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ragpickers.

Refuse and refuse disposal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, [2022]

Summary:

An ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commons.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Figures

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: 'La Basura es de los Pobres!' - 'Rubbish Belongs to the Poor'

1. 'All because We Bought Those Damn Trucks: Hygienic Enclosure and Infrastructural Modernity

2. The Mother Dump: Montevideo's Landfill Commons

3. Classifiers' Kinship and Embedded Waste

4. Care, (Mis)Classification, and Containment at the Aries Recycling Plant

5. Precarious Labour Organising and 'Urban Alambramiento'

Conclusion: Circular Economies, New Enclosures, and Commons Sense

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: O'Hare, Patrick Rubbish Belongs to the Poor

ISBN:

9781786807489