{"product_id":"recycling-class-isbn-9780262546973","title":"Recycling Class","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India’s discards.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRecycling Class\u003c\/i\u003e, Manisha Anantharaman examines the ideas, flows, and relationships around unmanaged discards in Bengaluru, India, itself a massive environmental problem of planetary proportions, to help us understand what types of coalitions deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives. \u003ci\u003eRecycling Class \u003c\/i\u003elinks middle-class, sustainable consumption with the environmental labor of the working poor to offer a relational analysis of urban sustainability politics and practice. Through ethnographic, community-based research, Anantharaman shows how diverse social groups adopt, contest, and modify neoliberal sustainability’s emphasis on market-based solutions, behavior change, and the aesthetic conflation of “clean” with “green.”  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing garbage politics in Bengaluru for over a decade, Anantharaman argues that middle class “communal sustainability\u003ci\u003e” \u003c\/i\u003eefforts create new avenues for waste picker organizations to make claims for infrastructural inclusion. Coproduced “DIY infrastructures” serve as sites of citizenship and political negotiation, challenging the technocratic and growth-based logics of dominant sustainability policies. Yet, these configurations reproduce class, caste, and gender-based divisions of labor, demonstrating that inclusion without social reform can reproduce unjust distributions of risk and responsibility. Revealing the “win-win” fallacy of sustainability and foregrounding the agency of communities excluded from environmental policy, \u003ci\u003eRecycling Class \u003c\/i\u003ewill appeal to scholars and activists alike who want to create a future with more transformative sustainability.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Situating Sustainability in Bengaluru's Discards 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Consuming the Clean and Green City 29\u003cbr\u003e2 Communal Sustainability 55\u003cbr\u003e3 Entrepreneurial Environmentalism 81\u003cbr\u003e4 DIY Infrastructures 109\u003cbr\u003e5 The Win-Win Fallacy 137\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Beyond Inclusion, toward Reparation 163\u003cbr\u003eNotes 185\u003cbr\u003eReferences 215\u003cbr\u003eIndex 255“Here is the book that we have been waiting for—a nuanced and authentic account of the politics of waste, class, caste, and sustainability in globalizing Bengaluru that disrupts taken-for-granted assumptions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Malini Ranganathan\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAssociate Professor, American University; coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCorruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This urgent book introduces in completely new ways crucial ideas for the politics of the circular economy by demonstrating waste pickers' transformative capacity as agents of reparation in a wasteful urban world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Vanesa Castan Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism, University of Sheffield\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                        \u003cbr\u003e“A rich, theoretically robust analysis of the empirically challenging topic of governing waste and informal waste work. An incredible read!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Raul Pacheco-Vega\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAssociate Professor, Methods Lab, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Mexico\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A dazzling, ingenious analysis of how marginalized workers and zero-waste advocates are advancing environmental justice in Bengaluru. Yet, as she warns, discriminatory hierarchies and subordinating social structures must be dismantled to ensure local sustainability actions transform city life.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Peter Dauvergne, Professor of International Relations, University of British Columbia; author of \u003ci\u003eAI in the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eManisha Anantharaman\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor at Sciences Po, Center for Sociology of Organisations (CSO), CNRS, Paris, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Circular Economy and the Global South. \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300793897189,"sku":"NP9780262546973","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262546973.jpg?v=1767735532","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/recycling-class-isbn-9780262546973","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}