Garbage Citizenship : Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal / Rosalind Fredericks.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781478002505
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Contents:
Introduction: trash matters -- Governing disposability -- Vital infrastructures of labor -- Technologies of community -- The piety of refusal -- Conclusion: garbage citizenship.
Summary: Rosalind Fredericks traces the volatile trash politics in Dakar, Senegal, to examine urban citizenship in the context of urban austerity and democratic politics, showing how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identifies and mobilizing political action.
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Introduction: trash matters -- Governing disposability -- Vital infrastructures of labor -- Technologies of community -- The piety of refusal -- Conclusion: garbage citizenship.

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Rosalind Fredericks traces the volatile trash politics in Dakar, Senegal, to examine urban citizenship in the context of urban austerity and democratic politics, showing how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identifies and mobilizing political action.

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