Recycling Class
Author: Anantharaman, Manisha
ISBN: 9780262546973
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 03 Jan 2024
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback / softback
b>An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards./b>BR>BR>b>An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards./b>br>br>In i>Recycling Class/i>, Manisha Anantharaman examines the ideas, flows, and relationships around unmanaged discards in Bengaluru, India, itself a massive environmental problem of planetary proportions, to help us understand what types of coalitions deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives. i>Recycling Class /i>links middle-class, sustainable consumption with the environmental labor of the working poor to offer a relational analysis of urban sustainability politics and practice. Through ethnographic, community-based research, Anantharaman shows how diverse social groups adopt, contest, and modify neoliberal sustainability's emphasis on market-based solutions, behavior change, and the aesthetic conflation of "clean" with "green." br>br>Tracing garbage politics in Bengaluru for over a decade, Anantharaman argues that middle class "communal sustainabilityi>" /i>efforts create new avenues for waste picker organizations to make claims for infrastructural inclusion. Coproduced "DIY infrastructures" serve as sites of citizenship and political negotiation, challenging the technocratic and growth-based logics of dominant sustainability policies. Yet, these configurations reproduce class, caste, and gender-based divisions of labor, demonstrating that inclusion without social reform can reproduce unjust distributions of risk and responsibility. Revealing the "win-win" fallacy of sustainability and foregrounding the agency of communities excluded from environmental policy, i>Recycling Class /i>will appeal to scholars and activists alike who want to create a future with more transformative sustainability.
ISBN: 9780262546973
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 03 Jan 2024
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback / softback
b>An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards./b>BR>BR>b>An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India's discards./b>br>br>In i>Recycling Class/i>, Manisha Anantharaman examines the ideas, flows, and relationships around unmanaged discards in Bengaluru, India, itself a massive environmental problem of planetary proportions, to help us understand what types of coalitions deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives. i>Recycling Class /i>links middle-class, sustainable consumption with the environmental labor of the working poor to offer a relational analysis of urban sustainability politics and practice. Through ethnographic, community-based research, Anantharaman shows how diverse social groups adopt, contest, and modify neoliberal sustainability's emphasis on market-based solutions, behavior change, and the aesthetic conflation of "clean" with "green." br>br>Tracing garbage politics in Bengaluru for over a decade, Anantharaman argues that middle class "communal sustainabilityi>" /i>efforts create new avenues for waste picker organizations to make claims for infrastructural inclusion. Coproduced "DIY infrastructures" serve as sites of citizenship and political negotiation, challenging the technocratic and growth-based logics of dominant sustainability policies. Yet, these configurations reproduce class, caste, and gender-based divisions of labor, demonstrating that inclusion without social reform can reproduce unjust distributions of risk and responsibility. Revealing the "win-win" fallacy of sustainability and foregrounding the agency of communities excluded from environmental policy, i>Recycling Class /i>will appeal to scholars and activists alike who want to create a future with more transformative sustainability.
