Waste Works
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Waste Works

Vital Politics in Urban Ghana

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Waste Works

Vital Politics in Urban Ghana

About this book

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 midcentury 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 on 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Color Plates
  7. Introduction. Infrastructural Intimacies: The Vital Politics of Waste in Urban Ghana
  8. 1. Assembling the New City: From Infrastructure to Vital Politics
  9. 2. Tema Proper: Infrastructures and Intimacies of Disrepair
  10. 3. The Right(s) to Remains: Excremental Infrastructure and Exception in Tema Manhean
  11. 4. Ziginshore: Infrastructure and the Commonwealth of Waste
  12. 5. Dwelling on Toilets: Tema’s Breakaway Republic of Ashaiman
  13. Conclusion. From Vital Politics to Deep Domesticity: Infrastructure as Political Experiment
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Index