Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century #06: Waste Worlds

Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability

Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century #06: Waste Worlds
Jacob Doherty
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14 Dec 2021 US
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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 belongs 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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Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability

Jacob Doherty is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh.
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ISBN-13: 9780520380950
Published: 14 Dec 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 363g
Pages: 288

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