Waste Works : Vital Politics in Urban Ghana /

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"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
Main Author: Chalfin, Brenda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban.
Public toilets.
City planning > Political aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Infrastructure (Economics) > Political aspects > Ghana > Tema.
City planning > Political aspects > Ghana > Tema.
Sanitation > Political aspects > Ghana > Tema.
Public toilets > Ghana > Tema.
Sociology, Urban > Ghana > Tema.
Ghana > Tema.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Infrastructural intimacies : the vital politics of waste in urban Ghana
  • Assembling the new city : from infrastructure to vital politics
  • Tema proper : infrastructures and intimacies of disrepair
  • The right(s) to remains : excremental infrastructure and exception in Tema Manhean
  • Ziginshore : infrastructure and the commonwealth of waste
  • Dwelling on toilets : Tema's breakaway republic of Ashaiman
  • Conclusion. From vital politics to deep domesticity : infrastructure as political experiment.

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