Waste Worlds : Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability Hardback
by Jacob Doherty
Part of the Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 8 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:14/12/2021
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- ISBN:9780520380943
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 8 b-w photographs
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:14/12/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520380943
