Patrick O'Hare (University of St Andrews)

Rubbish Belongs to the Poor

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Produktbeschreibung

An ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commons

Produktdetails

• Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9780745341408
• ISBN-10: 0745341403
• Artikelnr.: 59549425

Autorenporträt

Patrick O'Hare is a social anthropologist and activist. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge and is currently a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Senior Researcher at the University of St Andrews.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures
Series preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: 'La Basura Es de los Pobres' - 'Rubbish Belongs to the Poor'
1. 'All because We Bought Those Damn Trucks': Hygienic Enclosure and
Infrastructural Modernity
2. The Mother Dump: Montevideo's Landfill Commons
3. Classifiers' Kinship and Embedded Waste
4. Care, (Mis)Classification, and Containment at the Aries Recycling Plant
5. Precarious Labour Organising and 'Urban Alambramiento'
Conclusion: Circular Economies, New Enclosures, and the Commons Sense
Notes
References
Index