Brenda Chalfin

Waste Works

Vital Politics in Urban Ghana

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Produktbeschreibung

Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana’s planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016946
• ISBN-10: 1478016949
• Artikelnr.: 64198807

Autorenporträt

Brenda Chalfin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa and Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  vii
Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction. Infrastructural Intimacies: The Vital Politics of Waste in
Urban Ghana  1
1. Assembling the New City: From Infrastructure to Vital Politics  45
2. Tema Proper: Infrastructures and Intimacies of Disrepair  96
3. The Right(s) to Remains: Excremental Infrastructure and Exception in
Tema Manhean  133
4. Ziginshore: Infrastructure and the Commonwealth of Waste  181
5. Dwelling on Toilets: Tema's Breakaway Republic of Ashaiman  212
Conclusion. From Vital Politics to Deep Domesticity: Infrastructure as
Political Experiment  268
Notes  295
References  315
Index  339