In cities around the world, the removal of waste materials is a critical part of everyday life. Workers, both formal and informal, engage in intimate forms of labor that separate these materials from those who produce them. In Lahore, Pakistan, such waste intimacies are fraught by inequalities, which are discernible in affective, material, and spatial relations stretching across an uneven urban landscape. Waste work in urban Pakistan is a social relationship formed along the lines of caste, class, and religion; both municipal sanitation workers who are Christian and informal waste workers who are Muslim come from low‐ or noncaste backgrounds. Waste intimacies foreground those forms of work, relationships, and affects that, in distributing waste across individuals and social groups, reproduce a shared though unequal world. [waste, work, labor, intimacy, caste, Pakistan, South Asia]

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浪费亲密关系

在世界各地的城市中，清除废物是日常生活的关键部分。正式和非正式的工人都从事亲密的劳动形式，将这些材料与生产它们的人区分开。在巴基斯坦拉合尔，这种废物亲密关系充斥着不平等现象，这种不平等现象在遍布不平坦的城市景观的情感，物质和空间关系中显而易见。巴基斯坦城市的废物工作是一种根据种姓，阶级和宗教形成的社会关系。基督教徒的市政环卫工人和穆斯林的非正式废物工人都来自低种姓或非种姓。浪费亲密关系凸显了这些形式的工作，关系，并影响到这种浪费，即在将浪费分配给个人和社会团体时，再现了一个共享但不平等的世界。[浪费，工作，劳动，亲密关系，种姓，巴基斯坦，南亚]