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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chalfin, Brenda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.