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O'Hare, Patrick,

Rubbish belongs to the poor : hygienic enclosure and the waste commons / Patrick O'Hare. - xiii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Anthropology, culture and society . - Anthropology, culture, and society. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'La Basura Es de los Pobres' -- 'Rubbish Belongs to the Poor' -- 1 'All because We Bought Those Damn Trucks': Hygienic Enclosure and Infrastructural Modernity -- 2 The Mother Dump: Montevideo's Landfill Commons -- 3 Classifiers' Kinship and Embedded Waste -- 4 Care, (Mis)Classification, and Containment at the Aries Recycling Plant -- 5 Precarious Labour Organising and 'Urban Alambramiento' -- Conclusion: Circular Economies, New Enclosures, and the Commons Sense -- Notes

An ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commons.

ISBN: 9780745341385 0745341381 9780745341408 (pbk.) 0745341403

LCCN: 2022304580

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC1K7925 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020424245 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ragpickers--Social conditions.--Uruguay--Montevideo
Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects.
Chiffonniers--Conditions sociales.--Uruguay--Montevideo
Déchets--Élimination--Aspect social.
Ragpickers--Social conditions.
Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Uruguay--Montevideo.

LC Class. No.: HD8039.R462 / U786 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5680989513 OHA / 023084