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Waste works : vital politics in urban Ghana
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Brenda Chalfin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2023
- ©2023
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 348 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
- data file
- ISBNs
- 1478016949, 1478019581, 9781478016946, 1478024216, 9781478019589, 9781478024217
- OCLC
- on1371140855, on1353920480, on1361713340
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction. 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