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Stokes, Kathleen ORCID: 0000-0002-8643-3258 and Lawhon, Mary ORCID: 0000-0003-4850-1560 . What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa. Area Dev. Policy. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 2379-2957

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Abstract

Studies of waste work have largely focused on labourers who collect and process materials in exchange for money, including informal waste reclaimers and those now working precariously due to neoliberalization. Researchers have also drawn attention to who sorts waste in and beyond the household. Here we examine voluntary clean-ups as well as waste education in South Africa. State discourse encourages people to engage with the wastescape without framing this participation as work. Yet such engagements require people to act, and changing existing practices and expectations of who does what (and who is paid what) to make waste flow. We argue that understanding such activities as infrastructural helps to explain how the state seeks to enrol citizens into waste configurations, and understanding them as labour enables more capacious politics and claims to waste's value.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Stokes, Kathleen UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-8643-3258 UNSPECIFIED Lawhon, Mary UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4850-1560 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-670350
DOI:	10.1080/23792949.2022.2145321
Journal or Publication Title:	Area Dev. Policy
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	2379-2957
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOLID-WASTE; MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; PARTICIPATION; MAINTENANCE; SERVICES; QUESTION Multiple languages Development Studies Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/67035