PhD on waste, researching ‘disgusting’ stuff, Care for waste(d) livelihoods. Swear by Tea!
Rethink, Reduce, Recycle
Nov 17, 2020 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Modern municipal waste disposal is not limited to removal of garbage but involves a strategic churning out of unwanted people. This is seen through a massive fire (2016) managed by displacing waste-workers @ Deonar dump 1/10 @DiscardStudies#Discard2020go.nasa.gov/3lMdeyU
Through ethnographic work conducted over 11 months (2016-17) I found that criminalization & blame are central to the removal of waste-workers from Mumbai’s Deonar landfill by labelling them as ‘illegal’ & rendering them unwanted. 2/10 #Discard2020