Book ID: CBB866747879

Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability (2021)

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Jacob Doherty (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 288
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Sullivan, Kathleen
Strach, Patricia
Bhaduri, Saradindu
Cohen, William A.
Elshakry, Marwa S.
Ferreira Da Silva, Alvaro
Journals
Blätter für Technikgeschichte
Journal of Historical Geography
Public Understanding of Science
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Science as Culture
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Publishers
The MIT Press
Georgia Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Campus
Cornell University Press
Duke University Press
Concepts
Infrastructure
Urban planning
Public health
Sanitation
Waste disposal
Technology and society
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Medieval
Modern
Places
United States
Uganda
Ghana
Africa
Great Britain
Paris (France)
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