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Waste(d) Collectors

Politics of Urban Exclusion in Mumbai
Urban Studies 1. Aufl.

von: Sneha Sharma
78,99 €
Verlag:	Transcript Verlag
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	31.07.2022
ISBN/EAN:	9783839458242
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	250

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Titelbeschreibung

Modern waste disposal systems in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems, colonial histories and neoliberal logics which operate by reproducing existing social hierarchies. Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste disposal in Mumbai, India, by undertaking an ethnographic journey to the city's most unwanted space, a dumping site. She challenges the dominant techno-managerial paradigm in waste management and reveals how spaces and people are made into waste through exclusionary social practices. Offering new insights on topics of urban marginality, informality, and urban planning, this book will attract scholars from sociology, urban studies, and human geography.

Autorenportrait

Sneha Sharma is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany. She was awarded a DAAD scholarship for undertaking her PhD from the Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn. With her keen interest in discard studies, urban practices, and questions of informality and infrastructure, she continues to draw from critical perspectives in urban sociology to shape her current research.