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Going beyond a techno-managerial approach, Sneha Sharma critically interrogates the politics around urban waste disposal in Mumbai. She undertakes an ethnographic journey to the city’s most unwante...
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  • 13 September 2022
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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.
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Price: $95.00
Pages: 248
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Urban Studies
Publication Date: 13 September 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837658248
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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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.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 11
List of Figures and Tables 13
List of Abbreviations 15
The Fire - from Space 19
References 23
Introduction 25
Chapter 1 Finding value in Mumbai's waste: Trends and shifts in waste governance 63
Chapter 2 Waste in the city 91
Chapter 3 The middle class and the miscreants 125
Chapter 4 Wall and boundaries: Reproduction of uncertainty 153
Chapter 5 Struggles for reclaiming the dumping site 187
Epilogue 221