9781478001416-1478001410-Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal

Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal

ISBN-13: 9781478001416
ISBN-10: 1478001410
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Rosalind Fredericks
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 216 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781478001416
ISBN-10: 1478001410
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Rosalind Fredericks
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 216 pages

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Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal (ISBN-13: 9781478001416 and ISBN-10: 1478001410), written by authors Rosalind Fredericks, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2018. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other West Africa (African History, Human Geography, Social Sciences, Urban, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal (Paperback, New) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used West Africa books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.47.

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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.

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