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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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Auteur principal: Chalfin, Brenda (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.