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Of Poverty and Plastic
Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India's Urban Informal Economy
Seiten
2009
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-806086-4 (ISBN)
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-806086-4 (ISBN)
This book documents and analyses the various facets of labouring lives at different levels of the value chain in the waste scavenging and plastic recycling sector. It links the economic, social, and political factors that structure the well-being, agency, and activities of actors operating in this informal economy.
Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, 'field economics' approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations experienced by those working in the informal waste recovery and plastic recycling economy of Delhi.
A detailed analysis of specialization, capital, and value in various segments of this labour-intensive, 'green' informal market is undertaken, with explicit recognition of its wider social and political institutional context, and how it is shaped by unequal interactions with civil society and the state. In particular, the book focuses on the identity and agency of subordinate scheduled caste groups-living literally and metaphorically on the edge of the city-in negotiating 'a decent life' in today's neoliberal environment.
The case studies of the ban on recycled polythene bags and the industrial relocation order illustrate the channels through which these actors collectively seek to resist the perceived anti-urban poor status quo, driven by powerful middle class coalitions through legislation or judicial fiat, with varying degrees of success. In doing so, the book exposes the complex, and at times contrary, policy reality binding poverty and deprivation, formal and informal markets, the state and citizenship in contemporary urban India.
Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, 'field economics' approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations experienced by those working in the informal waste recovery and plastic recycling economy of Delhi.
A detailed analysis of specialization, capital, and value in various segments of this labour-intensive, 'green' informal market is undertaken, with explicit recognition of its wider social and political institutional context, and how it is shaped by unequal interactions with civil society and the state. In particular, the book focuses on the identity and agency of subordinate scheduled caste groups-living literally and metaphorically on the edge of the city-in negotiating 'a decent life' in today's neoliberal environment.
The case studies of the ban on recycled polythene bags and the industrial relocation order illustrate the channels through which these actors collectively seek to resist the perceived anti-urban poor status quo, driven by powerful middle class coalitions through legislation or judicial fiat, with varying degrees of success. In doing so, the book exposes the complex, and at times contrary, policy reality binding poverty and deprivation, formal and informal markets, the state and citizenship in contemporary urban India.
Kaveri Gill completed the book while holding a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge. She is at present a Consultant with the Planning Commission of India.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES, LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS, MAP; WASTE AS INFORMAL SECTOR WORK: MEASURING INCOME POVERTY, INEQUALITY, AND DEPRIVATION; FROM PIGS AND POLLUTION TO PLASTICS AND PROGRESS: RECASTING LOW CASTE STATUS IN INDIA'S EXPANDING INFORMAL ECONOMY; METHODOLOGICAL NOTE, PLASTICS APPENDIX, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
Zusatzinfo | 6 black and white photographs, 1 map |
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Verlagsort | New Delhi |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 228 mm |
Gewicht | 520 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-806086-6 / 0198060866 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-806086-4 / 9780198060864 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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