Waste Works

Vital Politics in Urban Ghana

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvBrenda Chalfin

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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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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-05
Mått152 x 229 x 29 mm
Vikt658 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478019589

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List of Illustrations viiPreface xiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction. Infrastructural Intimacies: The Vital Politics of Waste in Urban Ghana 11. Assembling the New City: From Infrastructure to Vital Politics 452. Tema Proper: Infrastructures and Intimacies of Disrepair 963. The Right(s) to Remains: Excremental Infrastructure and Exception in Tema Manhean 1334. Ziginshore: Infrastructure and the Commonwealth of Waste 1815. Dwelling on Toilets: Tema's Breakaway Republic of Ashaiman 212Conclusion. From Vital Politics to Deep Domesticity: Infrastructure as Political Experiment 268Notes 295References 315Index 339

". . . this substantial, well researched study presents an engaging account of the vitality of West African urbanism and the resourcefulness of Tema’s inhabitants. Moreover, by documenting the afterlives of Tema’s sanitary infrastructure, Chalfin makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship on the urban politics of modern architecture and planning in West Africa." - Rixt Woudstra (Architectural Theory Review)