Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'La Basura Es de los Pobres' -- 'Rubbish Belongs to the Poor' -- 1 'All because We Bought Those Damn Trucks': Hygienic Enclosure and Infrastructural Modernity -- 2 The Mother Dump: Montevideo's Landfill Commons -- 3 Classifiers' Kinship and Embedded Waste -- 4 Care, (Mis)Classification, and Containment at the Aries Recycling Plant -- 5 Precarious Labour Organising and 'Urban Alambramiento' -- Conclusion: Circular Economies, New Enclosures, and the Commons Sense -- Notes
Summary
An ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commons
