Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability by Jacob Doh

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Waste Worlds

by Jacob Doherty

Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what belongs in the new Kampala. Garbage materializes these struggles. In the densely inhabited social infrastructures in and around the city's waste streams, people, places, and things become disposable but conditions of disposability are also challenged and undone. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, Jacob Doherty illustrates how waste makes worlds, offering the key intervention that disposability is best understood not existentially, as a condition of social exclusion, but infrastructurally, as a form of injurious social inclusion.

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" Waste Worlds is an ethically grounded, theoretically sophisticated, and politically astute book about how to write about waste in Africa without reducing Africans to waste, and about how to write about poverty on the second-largest continent without losing sight of the local, national, and global politics that shape that poverty. Jacob Doherty takes Kampala on its terms as a common city and analyzes the myriad ways ordinary Ugandans grapple with the waste worlds that make up their capital city. Waste, Doherty tells us in this powerful book, is not an object--it is something we do. We waste lives, we waste the environment, we waste things. And how we do all that is fundamentally political."--Jacob Dlamini, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University "Doherty's masterful book works through waste and waste management to examine the dynamics of development and disposability in contemporary Kampala, Uganda. It asks how people, places, and things become disposable and how conditions of disposability are challenged and undone. But in my view it does much more than that. It complicates prevailing ideas about maintenance, in relation to the scale of the city, to political authority, to infrastructures, and to experiences of belonging and the body. And it offers an updated critical reading of twenty-first-century development (and postcoloniality) that is profoundly materialist in its consideration of waste, but that also makes space for affective and linguistic registers in its analysis. Doherty's narrative voice is its own source of pleasure: it is rich with vivid, low-to-the-ground descriptions that organically yield the analyses he offers us."--Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, author of Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine

Author Biography

Jacob Doherty is Lecturer in Anthropology of Development at the University of Edinburgh.

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface: "Don't You Have Garbage in Your Country?"

Introduction
Disposability's Infrastructure

Part I  The Authority of Garbage
1. Accumulations of Authority
2. Tear Gas and Trash Trucks
3. Destructive Creation
4. Selfies of the State

Part II  Away
5. Para-Sites
6. Legalizing Waste
7. Sink and Spill
8. Assembling the Waste Stream
9. Embodied Displacement

Part III  Racializing Disposability
10. From Natives to Locals
11. Infrastructures of Feeling
12. Developmental Respectability
13. Waste in Time
14. Clean Hearts, Dirty Hands

Conclusion
Surplus, Embodiment, Displacement, and Contestation

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Review

"By means of the book's rich ethnographic accounts, Doherty. . . .makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the work that underlies the infrastructures that are so vital to contemporary societies." * Exertions *
"An expansive rendering of urban sanitation policies and problems in Kampala. . . . would certainly work well in an undergraduate course." * American Anthropologist *
"Evocative with a skilful poetic style. . . . Waste Worlds offers a way to think about waste that humanises waste workers and renders the complicated experience of waste for non-elite urban residents." * LSE Review of Books *

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"By means of the book's rich ethnographic accounts, Doherty. . . .makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the work that underlies the infrastructures that are so vital to contemporary societies."

Details ISBN0520380940 Author Jacob Doherty Short Title Waste Worlds Language English ISBN-10 0520380940 ISBN-13 9780520380943 Format Hardcover Series Number 6 Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-12-14 NZ Release Date 2021-12-14 US Release Date 2021-12-14 Pages 288 Year 2021 Publication Date 2021-12-14 UK Release Date 2021-12-14 Illustrations 8 b-w photographs Illustrator Kirsten McClure Birth 1980 Death 2015 Affiliation University of Queensland, Australia. Position George Sansom Professor of History Qualifications M.D. Publisher University of California Press Series Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Subtitle Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability DEWEY 363.728096761 Audience Professional & Vocational

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  • Author: Jacob Doherty
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