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Accessing Value in Lahore’s Waste Infrastructures
Ethnos ( IF 1.934 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 , DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2020.1773895
Waqas H. Butt 1
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ABSTRACT

Lahore’s ever-growing waste generation has taken on increasing political significance – but why and how has this happened? This article argues that ways of knowing waste as one thing, and not another, shape how actors in Lahore’s waste infrastructures materialise value out of waste materials. For several decades, waste workers have been receiving payment for carrying away waste materials and making a profit by selling recyclables, which required they mobilise sociopolitical relations to access these materials. However, a public-private partnership has recently supplanted the municipal department overseeing waste disposal, which brought the newly-formed public Company into conflict with these workers. This article thus foregrounds this struggle to examine how waste becomes an epistemological object around which various kinds of work, exchanges, and technologies are organised, which subsequently shapes how value is realised out of Lahore’s waste infrastructures. This is what invests both – waste and its infrastructures – with such political salience.



中文翻译:

获取拉合尔废物基础设施的价值

摘要

拉合尔不断增长的垃圾产生量具有越来越大的政治意义——但为什么会发生这种情况以及如何发生呢?本文认为,将废物视为一件事而不是另一件事的方式决定了拉合尔废物基础设施中的参与者如何从废物材料中实现价值。几十年来,废物处理工人一直通过运走废料并通过出售可回收物来赚取利润,这需要他们动员社会政治关系来获取这些材料。然而,公私合作伙伴关系最近取代了监督废物处理的市政部门,这使新成立的上市公司与这些工人发生了冲突。因此,本文突出了这场斗争,以检验废物如何成为一种认识论对象,各种工作、交换、技术的组织化,最终决定了如何从拉合尔的废物基础设施中实现价值。这就是废物及其基础设施投资具有如此政治意义的原因。

更新日期:2020-06-05
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