Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century #6)

Jacob Doherty

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Publication Date: December 14th, 2021

Publisher:

University of California Press

ISBN:

9780520380943

Pages:

288

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Description

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 belong in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes these struggles. In the densely inhabited social infrastructures in and around the city's waste streams, people, places, and things become disposable but conditions of disposability are also challenged and undone. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, Jacob Doherty illustrates how waste makes worlds, offering the key intervention that disposability is best understood not existentially, as a condition of social exclusion, but infrastructurally, as a form of injurious social inclusion.

About the Author

Jacob Doherty is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh.

Praise for Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century #6)

"By means of the book’s rich ethnographic accounts, Doherty. . . .makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the work that underlies the infrastructures that are so vital to contemporary societies."
— Exertions

"An expansive rendering of urban sanitation policies and problems in Kampala. . . . would certainly work well in an undergraduate course."
— American Anthropologist

"Evocative with a skilful poetic style. . . . Waste Worlds offers a way to think about waste that humanises waste workers and renders the complicated experience of waste for non-elite urban residents."
— LSE Review of Books

Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century #6)

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About the Author

Praise for Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century #6)

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