Shivaji Nagar in the Deonar suburb of Mumbai is popularly known as “Bombay's Gas Chamber.” Located between one of Asia's largest garbage dumps and Mumbai's largest municipal slaughterhouse, this neighborhood is environmentally vulnerable, situated at the crossroads of clusters of heavy and petrochemical industries, and a network of the city's busiest highways. In popular, official, and scholarly narratives, this neighborhood has been constructed as a place of failure, waste, and death. The residents of Shivaji Nagar, well aware of these narratives, use the demonstration of “failure” to their advantage to stake claims of belonging to the neighborhood, and demand state assistance, albeit often with punitive consequences. They contend that in doing so, “failure” becomes not merely a judgment conferred upon the neighborhood, its residents, and their way of life, but rather a medium of exchange for and a condition of possibility of their futures, and thus elicits an additional amount of labor. The article will focus on these labors performed by the waste workers who live and work in the neighborhood.

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失败的劳动：孟买的劳动，毒性和财产

位于孟买Deonar郊区的Shivaji Nagar通常被称为“孟买的毒气室”。该社区位于亚洲最大的垃圾场之一和孟买最大的市政屠宰场之间，对环境不利，位于重工业和石化工业集群的十字路口，以及该市最繁忙的高速公路网络。在流行的，官方的和学术的叙述中，这个社区被建造成一个失败，浪费和死亡的地方。希瓦吉·纳加尔（Shivaji Nagar）的居民非常了解这些叙述，利用“失败”的示威优势来主张属于该社区的主张，并要求国家援助，尽管这常常会带来惩罚性后果。他们争辩说，这样做“失败”不只是赋予邻里的一种判断，它的居民及其生活方式，而是一种交换媒介和未来可能性的条件，因此引来了更多的劳动。本文将重点介绍居住和工作在附近的废物工人的这些劳动。