Waste(d) Collectors: Politics of Urban Exclusion in Mumbai
Sneha Sharma
Jul 2022 · transcript Verlag
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Modern waste disposal systems in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems, colonial histories and neoliberal logics which operate by reproducing existing social hierarchies. Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste disposal in Mumbai, India, by undertaking an ethnographic journey to the city's most unwanted space, a dumping site. She challenges the dominant techno-managerial paradigm in waste management and reveals how spaces and people are made into waste through exclusionary social practices. Offering new insights on topics of urban marginality, informality, and urban planning, this book will attract scholars from sociology, urban studies, and human geography.
About the author
Sneha Sharma is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany. She was awarded a DAAD scholarship for undertaking her PhD from the Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn. With her keen interest in discard studies, urban practices, and questions of informality and infrastructure, she continues to draw from critical perspectives in urban sociology to shape her current research.
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