Millar Kathleen M. Millar

Reclaiming the Discarded (eBook, PDF)

Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump

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Produktbeschreibung

In Reclaiming the Discarded Kathleen M. Millar offers an evocative ethnography of Jardim Gramacho, a sprawling garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where roughly two thousand self-employed workers known as catadores collect recyclable materials. While the figure of the scavenger sifting through garbage seems iconic of wageless life today, Millar shows how the work of reclaiming recyclables is more than a survival strategy or an informal labor practice. Rather, the stories of catadores show how this work is inseparable from conceptions of the good life and from human struggles to realize these visions within precarious conditions of urban poverty. By approaching the work of catadores as highly generative, Millar calls into question the category of informality, common conceptions of garbage, and the continued normativity of wage labor. In so doing, she illuminates how waste lies at the heart of relations of inequality and projects of social transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372073
• Artikelnr.: 54783585

Autorenporträt

Kathleen M. Millar is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Arriving beyond Abjection  35
2. The Precarious Present  67
3. Life Well Spent  95
4. Plastic Economy  123
5. From Refuse to Revolution  151
Conclusion: The Garbage Never Ends  177
Notes  191
References  207
Index  223