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Waste Works
Vital Politics in Urban Ghana
Taschenbuch von Brenda Chalfin
Sprache: Englisch

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Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana’s planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life.
Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana’s planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life.
Über den Autor
Brenda Chalfin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa and Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. Infrastructural Intimacies: The Vital Politics of Waste in Urban Ghana 1
1. Assembling the New City: From Infrastructure to Vital Politics 45
2. Tema Proper: Infrastructures and Intimacies of Disrepair 96
3. The Right(s) to Remains: Excremental Infrastructure and Exception in Tema Manhean 133
4. Ziginshore: Infrastructure and the Commonwealth of Waste 181
5. Dwelling on Toilets: Tema's Breakaway Republic of Ashaiman 212
Conclusion. From Vital Politics to Deep Domesticity: Infrastructure as Political Experiment 268
Notes 295
References 315
Index 339
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 376
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478019589
ISBN-10: 1478019581
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Chalfin, Brenda
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 154 x 232 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Brenda Chalfin
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,654 kg
preigu-id: 122030713
Über den Autor
Brenda Chalfin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa and Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. Infrastructural Intimacies: The Vital Politics of Waste in Urban Ghana 1
1. Assembling the New City: From Infrastructure to Vital Politics 45
2. Tema Proper: Infrastructures and Intimacies of Disrepair 96
3. The Right(s) to Remains: Excremental Infrastructure and Exception in Tema Manhean 133
4. Ziginshore: Infrastructure and the Commonwealth of Waste 181
5. Dwelling on Toilets: Tema's Breakaway Republic of Ashaiman 212
Conclusion. From Vital Politics to Deep Domesticity: Infrastructure as Political Experiment 268
Notes 295
References 315
Index 339
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 376
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478019589
ISBN-10: 1478019581
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Chalfin, Brenda
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 154 x 232 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Brenda Chalfin
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.06.2023
Gewicht: 0,654 kg
preigu-id: 122030713
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