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Waste Works
- Vital Politics in Urban Ghana
Engelsk Paperback
Waste Works
- Vital Politics in Urban Ghana
Engelsk Paperback

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In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana’s planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life. Chalfin argues that at Tema’s midcentury founding, a prime objective of governing authorities was to cultivate self-contained citizens by means of tightly orchestrated domestic infrastructure and centralized control of bodily excrement to both develop and depoliticize the new nation. Comparing infrastructural innovations across the city, Chalfin excavates how Tema residents pursue novel approaches to urban waste and sanitation built on the ruins of the inherited order, profoundly altering the urban public sphere. Once decreed a private matter to be guaranteed by state authorities, excrement becomes a public issue, collectively managed by private persons. Pushing self-care into public space and extending domestic responsibility for public well-being and bodily outputs, popularly devised waste infrastructures are a decisive arena to make claims, build coalitions, and cultivate status. Confounding high-modernist ideals, excremental infrastructures unlock bodily waste’s diverse political potentials.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478019589
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478019581
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
5 maj 2023
Længde:
29mm
Bredde:
232mm
Højde:
154mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
5 maj 2023
Forfatter(e):
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