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Waste worlds : inhabiting Kampala's infrastructures of disposability /

"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 ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doherty, Jacob, 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Colección:Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface: "Don't you have garbage in your country?"
  • Introduction: Disposability's infrastructure
  • Accumulations of authority
  • Tear gas and trash trucks
  • Destructive creation
  • Selfies of the state
  • Para-sites
  • Legalizing waste
  • Sink and spill
  • Assembling the waste stream
  • Embodied displacement
  • From natives to locals
  • Infra-structures of feeling
  • Developmental respectability
  • Waste in time
  • Clean hearts, dirty hands
  • Conclusion: Surplus, embodiment, displacement, and contestation.