Garbage Citizenship

Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal

Rosalind Fredericks (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0141-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	22 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0141-0 / 1478001410
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0141-6 / 9781478001416
Zustand	Neuware