Garbage Citizenship
Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as...
Bewaard in:
| Hoofdauteur: | |
|---|---|
| Formaat: | Online |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Gepubliceerd in: |
Duke University Press
2022
|
| Onderwerpen: | |
| Online toegang: | ONIX_20221208_9781478002505_14 |
| Tags: |
Geen labels, Wees de eerste die dit record labelt!
|
| _version_ | 1869518744781324288 |
|---|---|
| author | Fredericks, Rosalind |
| author_browse | Fredericks, Rosalind |
| author_facet | Fredericks, Rosalind |
| author_sort | Fredericks, Rosalind |
| collection | Directory of Open Access Books |
| description | Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as the city's trash collectors and ordinary residents protest urban austerity. Often drawing on discourses of Islamic piety, garbage activists have provided a powerful language to critique a neoliberal mode of governing-through-disposability and assert rights to fair labor. In Garbage Citizenship Rosalind Fredericks traces Dakar's volatile trash politics to recalibrate how we understand urban infrastructure by emphasizing its material, social, and affective elements. She shows how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identities and mobilizing political action. Fleshing out the materiality of trash and degraded labor, Fredericks illuminates the myriad ways waste can be a potent tool of urban control and rebellion. |
| format | Online |
| id | doab-20.500.12854ir-94668 |
| institution | Directory of Open Access Books |
| language | eng |
| publishDate | 2022 |
| publishDateRange | 2022 |
| publishDateSort | 2022 |
| publisher | Duke University Press |
| publisherStr | Duke University Press |
| record_format | ojs |
| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-946682024-03-28T18:40:24Z Garbage Citizenship Fredericks, Rosalind Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as the city's trash collectors and ordinary residents protest urban austerity. Often drawing on discourses of Islamic piety, garbage activists have provided a powerful language to critique a neoliberal mode of governing-through-disposability and assert rights to fair labor. In Garbage Citizenship Rosalind Fredericks traces Dakar's volatile trash politics to recalibrate how we understand urban infrastructure by emphasizing its material, social, and affective elements. She shows how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identities and mobilizing political action. Fleshing out the materiality of trash and degraded labor, Fredericks illuminates the myriad ways waste can be a potent tool of urban control and rebellion. 2022-12-08T12:17:45Z 2022-12-08T12:17:45Z 2018 book ONIX_20221208_9781478002505_14 9781478002505 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/94668 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://muse.jhu.edu/book/65103 Duke University Press 10.1353/book.65103 10.1353/book.65103 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac Knowledge Unlatched 9781478002505 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 216 open access |
| spellingShingle | Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities Fredericks, Rosalind Garbage Citizenship |
| title | Garbage Citizenship |
| title_full | Garbage Citizenship |
| title_fullStr | Garbage Citizenship |
| title_full_unstemmed | Garbage Citizenship |
| title_short | Garbage Citizenship |
| title_sort | garbage citizenship |
| topic | Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities |
| topic_facet | Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities |
| url | ONIX_20221208_9781478002505_14 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT fredericksrosalind garbagecitizenship |