Recycling class: The contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability
Anantharaman, Manisha
Recycling class: The contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability - London The MIT Press 2023 - xii, 275 p. Includes bibliographical reference and index
In Recycling Class, 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. Recycling Class 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
9780262546973
textual
Recycling industry
Urban sustainability, Bengaluru
Environmentalism development
Recycling class: The contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability - London The MIT Press 2023 - xii, 275 p. Includes bibliographical reference and index
In Recycling Class, 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. Recycling Class 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
9780262546973
textual
Recycling industry
Urban sustainability, Bengaluru
Environmentalism development