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020			_a9781478019589 _q(paperback)
020			_a9781478016946 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781478024217 _q(ebook)
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050	0	0	_aHT148.G4 _bC31
100	1		_aChalfin, Brenda,
245	1	0	_aWaste works : _bvital politics in urban Ghana / _cBrenda Chalfin
264		1	_aDurham ; _aLondon : _bDuke University Press, _c2023.
300			_axxviii, 348 pages : _bill. col. maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction. Infrastructural intimacies : the vital politics of waste in urban Ghana -- Assembling the new city : from infrastructure to vital politics -- Tema proper : infrastructures and intimacies of disrepair -- The right(s) to remains : excremental infrastructure and exception in Tema Manhean -- Ziginshore : infrastructure and the commonwealth of waste -- Dwelling on toilets : Tema's breakaway republic of Ashaiman -- Conclusion. From vital politics to deep domesticity : infrastructure as political experiment.
520			_a"Waste Works theorizes urban form and dwelling through the infrastructure of bodily waste and sanitation in Tema, Ghana-specifically public toilets. Constituted outside the central planning processes that shaped the city, these excremental infrastructures reflect collective and individual empowerment through political negotiation across class lines. Although household bathrooms and plumbing are standard in Tema's central districts, the outlying communities still rely on public toilets built at Tema's mid-20th-century founding. In Tema, Brenda Chalfin finds that waste infrastructure is not a hidden substrate of the city, but a matter of active debate and construction, and often at the boundary between private interest and public good. Chalfin weaves together theories of power from Hannah Arendt, George Bataille, and Bruno Latour to develop the "vital politics of infrastructure," the inherent instability of political ordering in the face of the vital materials of human bodies"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600			_2Social Science _vUrban groups. The city. Urban sociology
650		0	_aSociology, Urban _zGhana _zTema.
650		0	_aPublic toilets _zGhana _zTema.
650		0	_aSanitation _xPolitical aspects _zGhana _zTema.
650		0	_aCity planning _xPolitical aspects _zGhana _zTema.
650		0	_aInfrastructure (Economics) _xPolitical aspects _zGhana _zTema.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social _2bisacsh
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aChalfin, Brenda. _tWaste works. _dDurham : Duke University Press, 2023 _z9781478024217 _w(DLC) 2022040821
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