Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability - Couverture souple

Anantharaman, Manisha

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262546973 ISBN 13 : 9780262546973

Editeur : MIT Press, 2024

Synopsis

An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India’s discards.

In Recycling Class, Manisha Anantharaman examines the ideas, flows, and relationships around unmanaged discards in Bengaluru, India, itself a massive environmental problem of planetary proportions, to help us understand what types of coalitions deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives. Recycling Class links middle-class, sustainable consumption with the environmental labor of the working poor to offer a relational analysis of urban sustainability politics and practice. Through ethnographic, community-based research, Anantharaman shows how diverse social groups adopt, contest, and modify neoliberal sustainability’s emphasis on market-based solutions, behavior change, and the aesthetic conflation of “clean” with “green.”  

Tracing garbage politics in Bengaluru for over a decade, Anantharaman argues that middle class “communal sustainability” efforts create new avenues for waste picker organizations to make claims for infrastructural inclusion. Coproduced “DIY infrastructures” serve as sites of citizenship and political negotiation, challenging the technocratic and growth-based logics of dominant sustainability policies. Yet, these configurations reproduce class, caste, and gender-based divisions of labor, demonstrating that inclusion without social reform can reproduce unjust distributions of risk and responsibility. Revealing the “win-win” fallacy of sustainability and foregrounding the agency of communities excluded from environmental policy, Recycling Class will appeal to scholars and activists alike who want to create a future with more transformative sustainability.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Manisha Anantharaman is Assistant Professor at Sciences Po, Center for Sociology of Organisations (CSO), CNRS, Paris, and coeditor of The Circular Economy and the Global South.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262546973
• ISBN 13: 9780262546973
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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