Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 348 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:
9781478024217
Content:
In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana's planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life. Chalfin argues that at Tema's mid-century founding, a prime objective of governing authorities was to cultivate self-contained citizens by means of tightly orchestrated domestic infrastructure and centralized control of bodily excrement to both develop and depoliticize the new nation. Comparing infrastructural innovations across the city, Chalfin excavates how Tema residents pursue novel approaches to urban waste and sanitation built upon the ruins of the inherited order, profoundly altering the urban public sphere. Once decreed a private matter to be guaranteed by state authorities, excrement becomes a public issue, collectively managed by private persons. Pushing self-care into public space and extending domestic responsibility for public well-being and bodily outputs, popularly devised waste infrastructures are a decisive arena to make claims, build coalitions, and cultivate status. Confounding high-modernist ideals, excremental infrastructures unlock bodily waste's diverse political potentials
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-4780-1958-9
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4780-1694-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Ghana
;
Tema
;
Stadtplanung
;
Infrastruktur
;
Sanitäranlage
DOI:
10.1215/9781478024217
DOI:
10.1515/9781478024217
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