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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Doherty, Jacob, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Series:Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 6.
Subjects:
Refuse and refuse disposal > Uganda > Kampala.
Urban renewal > Uganda > Kampala.
Déchets > Élimination > Ouganda > Kampala.
Rénovation urbaine > Ouganda > Kampala.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Refuse and refuse disposal
Urban renewal
Uganda > Kampala
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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