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100 _aAnantharaman, Manisha
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245 _aRecycling class: The contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability
260 _aLondon
_bThe MIT Press
_c2023
300 _axii, 275 p.
_bIncludes bibliographical reference and index
520 _aIn 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
650 _aRecycling industry
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650 _aUrban sustainability, Bengaluru
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650 _aEnvironmentalism development
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