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Waste Works – Vital Politics in Urban Ghana

Autor Brenda Chalfin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2023
Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana’s planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781478019589
ISBN-10: 1478019581
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 105 illustrations, including 37 in color
Dimensiuni: 155 x 232 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.98 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Notă biografică

Brenda Chalfin


Cuprins

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