Waste Worlds

Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability

Jacob Doherty

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English

University of California Press
14 December 2021

African history; Social & cultural anthropology; Industrial relations & safety; Waste management; Waste treatment & disposal

Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century

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 belongs 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.

By: Jacob Doherty
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 6
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520380943
ISBN 10: 0520380940
Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 14 December 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of Illustrations Preface: “Don’t You Have Garbage in Your Country?” Introduction Disposability’s Infrastructure Part I The Authority of Garbage 1. Accumulations of Authority 2. Tear Gas and Trash Trucks 3. Destructive Creation 4. Selfies of the State Part II Away 5. Para-Sites 6. Legalizing Waste 7. Sink and Spill 8. Assembling the Waste Stream 9. Embodied Displacement Part III Racializing Disposability 10. From Natives to Locals 11. Infrastructures of Feeling 12. Developmental Respectability 13. Waste in Time 14. Clean Hearts, Dirty Hands Conclusion Surplus, Embodiment, Displacement, and Contestation Notes Bibliography Index

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

Reviews for Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala’s Infrastructures of Disposability

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 *