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Rubbish belongs to the poor : hygienic enclosure and the waste commons / Patrick O'Hare.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology, culture, and societyPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2022Description: xiii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780745341385
  • 0745341381
  • 9780745341408 (pbk.)
  • 0745341403
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 23 305.5680989513 OHA 023084
LOC classification:
  • HD8039.R462 U786 2022
Contents:
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
Summary: An ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commons.
List(s) this item appears in: New Collection - June 2025
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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.

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