Waste Works
Waste Works In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana's planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life. Comparing…
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Waste Works
In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana's planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life. Comparing infrastructural innovations across the city, Chalfin excavates how Tema residents pursue novel approaches to urban waste and sanitation built upon the ruins of the inherited order, profoundly altering the urban public sphere. Chalfin argues that at Tema's mid-century founding, a prime objective of governing authorities was to cultivate self-contained citizens by means of tightly orchestrated domestic infrastructure and centralized control of bodily excrement to both develop and depoliticize the new nation.
Pushing self-care into public space and extending domestic Once decreed a private matter to be guaranteed by state authorities, excrement becomes a public issue, collectively managed by private persons.
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