Fredericks Rosalind Fredericks

Garbage Citizenship (eBook, PDF)

Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478002505
• Artikelnr.: 54671206

Autorenporträt

Rosalind Fredericks is Associate Professor of Geography and Development Studies at New York University and coeditor of The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging and Les arts de la citoyenneté au Sénégal: Espaces contestés et civilités urbaines.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Trash Matters  1
1. Governing Disposability  27
2. Vital Infrastructures of Labor 60
3. Technologies of Community  97
4. The Piety of Refusal  123
Conclusion. Garbage Citizenship  149
Notes  155
References  171
Index  193