... A key tactic of residual governance is to compartmentalize contamination sources. But people experience contaminants simultaneously, not separately or sequentially. At the informal settlement of Tudor Shaft, situated atop the remains of a uranium mine, radioactive contamination became a key...

... Atop the glitzy neighborhood of Malabar Hill in Mumbai rests the poetically named tower of silence funerary complex wherein Parsis still leave their dead to be excarnated by carrion birds. Chapter 5 examines the role of mortuary ritual infrastructure and its relation to critical disputes...