...Vinay Gidwani; Anant Maringanti Capitalist value making is underwritten by the production and disposal of waste through a complex, often invisible economy of informal waste recycling. This infra-economy is anchored by nodes that process and circulate variegated forms of waste generated in cities...

... that municipal trash collectors and the other citizens informally managing garbage in the home, community, and garbage dump are called upon to serve as the backbone of the city’s waste collection and disposal architecture. The material relations between infrastructure and labor are probed for what they reveal...

... like this one index “environmental citizenship” premised on the recognition of common responsibility for a vulnerable environment. Both suggest nature’s physical properties—e.g., aquifers’ vulnerability to toxic wastes—seemed to have brought sworn enemies together, thereby exceeding or bypassing...

.... Murray, 1890 . archive.org/details/ourviceregallife01duffuoft . Gidwani Vinay . “ Six Theses on Waste, Value, and Commons .” Social and Cultural Geography 14 , no. 7 ( 2013 ): 773 – 83 . doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2013.800222 . Gidwani Vinay , and Reddy Rajyashree N...

.... The authors in this themed section explore the divide between the popular and the political, and the political and the social, as these offered novel spaces for experiment. A section on waste and value showcases the theoretical potential of revisiting the Marxian concept of primary or primitive...

..., the mechanical arrangements and interconnected equipment that are meant to provide populations with potable water and take away their waste, that distribute supplies of electricity or gas, that facilitate the mass movement of people, energy, and goods, or that are built to contain and block those...

..., 67 second or third world. We hear how certain third world away at sea for long stretches of time. In the southern countries have to barter space to dump toxic waste of a countries women bear the brunt of the increasing in- developed country in return for food. debtedness...

...), coeditor of Timely Based on over two years of fieldwork in the West Bank Assets (School of American Research, 2008), and the and Israel, her current project focuses on the inter- author of numerous articles about development poli- sections of garbage, sewage, and waste markets with tics...

... included in this issue of CSSAAME Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (Co- draws on his ongoing project “The Afterlives of Waste” lumbia University Press, 2004), and The Black Hole of and his collaboration with Hyderabad Urban Lab. Gid- Empire...

... : Routledge , 2013 . Dupont Véronique . “ Slum Demolitions in Delhi since the 1990s: An Appraisal .” Economic and Political Weekly 43 , no. 28 ( 2008 ): 79 – 87 . Gidwani Vinay Reddy Rajyashree N. “ The Afterlives of ‘Waste’: Notes from India for a Minor History of Capitalist...

... skills processing plants, where women from fishing vil- were laid to waste by a few machines. Called the lages were employed. While these plants provided “malmudi” (mal=piece of net, mudi=knot) struggle...

... important, were living consumers of urban and rural waste. Dogs in Ottoman Egypt, as elsewhere, were therefore economically, socially, culturally, and environmentally productive of much of human society.5 Ottoman officials indeed actively encouraged the increase and maintenance...

... that space. 7 Singh and Prasad, however, were pointing me to a waste flow moving in quite the opposite direction. Rather than the poor and disenfranchised disseminating waste in the spaces of the dominant, my interlocutors in- sisted it was the other way around.8 In Prasad s case (and as we will discover...

... it as a focus of collective life. While infrastructures of waste, water, energy, and transport enable and transform ways of thinking and living collectively, the essays show, they can also interrupt and inhibit them. The essays in the section “The Indian Ocean and Other Middle Easts” challenge...

... stuck to the existence of myriad problems perceived as constraints to city life such as difficulties related to housing, insufficient supply of potable water, poor drainage and waste disposal, urban transport difficulty, and all...

... in fertilizer movements will bring this about. Hope- production. Hog feedlots are located conti- fully, some positive changes can be made guous to food processing plants. The wastes before the harsh logic of near total de- from these plants, often supplemented...

..., tions with broad strokes and for identifying charac- sold, used for work or wasted, and ultimately dis- teristic features of different systems. But there was sipated.”8 In a sense, the formula, taken from a price: energy regimes are implicitly thought to Something New under the Sun, sounds...

... Khoury . “The Scandal of the Billion Lira — The Ministry of Culture: Where Are the Grants Wasted?” (“Fadihat al-milyar lira–wizarat al-thaqafa: ayna tuhdar al-musa‘adat?”) . Mulhaq An-Nahar , October 4 , 1997 . Khoury Khoury . “The Scandal of Culture in the Ministry of Culture...

... that order, etc. instead of wasting energy and resources on protective legislation such as the Muslim Family Laws non-issues. Ordinance and the Child Marriage Restraint Act is under threat. Note While WAF respects religion as a matter of per...