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Author Fredericks, Rosalind, author.

Title Garbage Citizenship : Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal / Rosalind Fredericks.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020.
©2018.

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Description 1 online resource (216 pages)
text file
Series Book collections on Project MUSE.
Contents Introduction: trash matters -- Governing disposability -- Vital infrastructures of labor -- Technologies of community -- The piety of refusal -- Conclusion: garbage citizenship.
Summary Rosalind Fredericks traces the volatile trash politics in Dakar, Senegal, to examine urban citizenship in the context of urban austerity and democratic politics, showing how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identifies and mobilizing political action.
Local Note Project Muse Project Muse Open Access
Access Open Access Unrestricted online access
Subject Travailleurs pauvres -- Activite politique -- Senegal -- Dakar.
Travail -- Senegal -- Dakar.
Participation politique -- Senegal -- Dakar.
Refuse collection.
Political participation.
Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Working poor -- Political activity -- Senegal -- Dakar.
Working poor.
Senegal.
Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees.
Senegal -- Dakar.
Refuse collection -- Senegal -- Dakar.
Political participation -- Senegal -- Dakar.
Labor -- Senegal -- Dakar.
Genre/Form Electronic books. .
Added Author Project Muse, distributor.
ISBN 9781478001416
9781478000990
9781478091622
9781478002505
1478000996
1478002506
1478091622