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The political ecology of informal waste recyclers in India : circular economy, green jobs, and poverty /

The questions related to waste management are not merely technical; what, how, where, and by whom becomes intrinsically political questions. This book is about the power relations in recycling, from the viewpoint of political ecology, and ecological economics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Demaria, Federico (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Salvage (Waste, etc.) > India.
Recycling (Waste, etc.) > India.
Recyclage (Déchets, etc.) > Inde.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS.
Research.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Salvage (Waste, etc.)
India
The environment.
Environment and Ecology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction: Waste Is Increasingly a Site of Social Conflict
  • 1.1 Why This Book: The Research Questions
  • 1.2 How This Book Was Made: The Methods
  • 1.3 What This Book Is About: A Preview of the Chapters
  • 2. Theoretical Framework: Ecological Economics, Political Ecology, and Waste Studies
  • 2.1 Ecological Economics
  • 2.2 Political Ecology
  • 2.3 Waste Studies
  • 2.4 Theoretical Contribution: Capital Accumulation by Contamination
  • 3. Shipbreaking in Alang: A Conflict Against Capital Accumulation by Contamination
  • 3.1 Introduction: The Metabolism of a Global Infrastructure, Namely Shipping
  • 3.2 Methods and Study Region
  • 3.3 The Shipbreaking Industry
  • 3.4 Hazardous Waste and Socio-Environmental Impacts
  • 3.5 Looking Closer at the Ecological Distribution Conflict: The Blue Lady Case at the Supreme Court (2006-2007)
  • 3.6 Conclusions: Capital Accumulation by Contamination at Alang
  • 4. Delhi's Waste Conflict: An Unlikely Alliance Against Capital Accumulation by Dispossession and Contamination
  • 4.1 Introduction: A Political Ecology of Urban Metabolism
  • 4.2 Materiality and the Making of Urban Metabolisms
  • 4.3 Delhi's Urban Metabolism
  • 4.4 Conclusions: Contesting Urban Metabolism
  • 5. Informal Waste Recyclers and Their Environmental Services: A Case for Recognition and Capital De-Accumulation
  • 5.1 Introduction: The Black Box of the Informal Recycling Sector
  • 5.2 Methods: Interviews, Focus Groups, Official Documents, Direct and Participant Observation
  • 5.3 Formal Waste Management and the Informal Recycling Sector in Delhi, India
  • 5.4 Proposed Methodology: Data from the Junk Dealers' Record Books
  • 5.5 Results: The Metabolism of the Informal Recycling Sector.
  • 5.6 Discussion: Policy Proposals in Relation to the Waste Management and Environmental Services of Informal Recyclers
  • 5.7 Conclusions: Why Should Informal Recyclers Be Taken into Account?
  • 6. Conclusions: How Environments Are Shaped, Politicized, and Contested
  • References
  • Postface: My Intellectual Project, and How This Book Fits into It
  • About the Author
  • Index.