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Author Demaria, Federico, author.

Title The political ecology of informal waste recyclers in India : circular economy, green jobs, and poverty / Federico Demaria
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 05, 2023)
Subject Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- India
Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- India
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Salvage (Waste, etc.)
The environment.
Environment and Ecology.
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191965197
0191965197
9780192695697
019269569X