Waste(d) Collectors : : Politics of Urban Exclusion in Mumbai / / Sneha Sharma.

Scientific practices of removing waste in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems which reproduce existing social hierarchies. Thus going beyond a techno-managerial approach in waste management, Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban wast...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Urban Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • The Fire – from Space
  • References
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Finding value in Mumbai’s waste: Trends and shifts in waste governance
  • Chapter 2 Waste in the city
  • Chapter 3 The middle class and the miscreants
  • Chapter 4 Wall and boundaries: Reproduction of uncertainty
  • Chapter 5 Struggles for reclaiming the dumping site
  • Epilogue