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Waste works : vital politics in urban Ghana /

"Waste Works theorizes urban form and dwelling through the infrastructure of bodily waste and sanitation in Tema, Ghana-specifically public toilets. Constituted outside the central planning processes that shaped the city, these excremental infrastructures reflect collective and individual empow...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chalfin, Brenda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Infrastructural intimacies : the vital politics of waste in urban Ghana
  • 1. Assembling the new city : from infrastructure to vital politics
  • 2. Tema proper : infrastructures and intimacies of disrepair
  • 3. The right(s) to remains : excremental infrastructure and exception in Tema Manhean
  • 4. Ziginshore : infrastructure and the commonwealth of waste
  • 5. Dwelling on toilets : Tema's breakaway republic of Ashaiman
  • Conclusion. From vital politics to deep domesticity : infrastructure as political experiment.