TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anantharaman, Manisha
TI  - Recycling class: The contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability 
SN  - 9780262546973
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Recycling industry
KW  - Urban sustainability, Bengaluru
KW  - Environmentalism development
N2  - 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
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