{"product_id":"waste-works-vital-politics-in-urban-ghana-paperback","title":"Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrenda Chalfin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWaste Works\u003c\/i\u003e, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana's planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life. Chalfin argues that at Tema's midcentury 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. Comparing infrastructural innovations across the city, Chalfin excavates how Tema residents pursue novel approaches to urban waste and sanitation built on the ruins of the inherited order, profoundly altering the urban public sphere. Once decreed a private matter to be guaranteed by state authorities, excrement becomes a public issue, collectively managed by private persons. Pushing self-care into public space and extending domestic responsibility for public well-being and bodily outputs, popularly devised waste infrastructures are a decisive arena to make claims, build coalitions, and cultivate status. Confounding high-modernist ideals, excremental infrastructures unlock bodily waste's diverse political potentials.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrenda Chalfin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of \u003ci\u003eNeoliberal Frontiers: An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42170178470023,"sku":"9781478019589","price":48.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/waste-works-vital-politics-in-urban-ghana-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}