Waste Works
Vital Politics in Urban Ghana
1st Edition
Published on 6. March 2023
376 pages
978-1-4780-2421-7 (ISBN)
Description
Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana's planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life.
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05/2023
Duke University Press
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Brenda Chalfin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Neoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa and Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity.
Content
List of Illustrations vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. Infrastructural Intimacies: The Vital Politics of Waste in Urban Ghana 1
1. Assembling the New City: From Infrastructure to Vital Politics 45
2. Tema Proper: Infrastructures and Intimacies of Disrepair 96
3. The Right(s) to Remains: Excremental Infrastructure and Exception in Tema Manhean 133
4. Ziginshore: Infrastructure and the Commonwealth of Waste 181
5. Dwelling on Toilets: Tema's Breakaway Republic of Ashaiman 212
Conclusion. From Vital Politics to Deep Domesticity: Infrastructure as Political Experiment 268
Notes 295
References 315
Index 339
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction. Infrastructural Intimacies: The Vital Politics of Waste in Urban Ghana 1
1. Assembling the New City: From Infrastructure to Vital Politics 45
2. Tema Proper: Infrastructures and Intimacies of Disrepair 96
3. The Right(s) to Remains: Excremental Infrastructure and Exception in Tema Manhean 133
4. Ziginshore: Infrastructure and the Commonwealth of Waste 181
5. Dwelling on Toilets: Tema's Breakaway Republic of Ashaiman 212
Conclusion. From Vital Politics to Deep Domesticity: Infrastructure as Political Experiment 268
Notes 295
References 315
Index 339
