Waste's translations
Estuaries, marine life, and the chemistry of Mumbai's dumping grounds
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2261509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chitra (0000-0003-2155-5200, Department of Sociology National University of Singapore 11 Arts Link, #03‐06 AS1 Singapore 117573), V Chitra (0000-0002-7533-9039, National University of Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 337-356 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/amet.13047 |
| OpenAlex | W4200505632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 50 |
Mumbai's dumping grounds, located on the city's estuarine edge, are sites where garbage and marsh are turned into salable land. This process of translating waste into land depends on keeping matter, beings, and landscapes separate and on limiting their interactions. Yet waste and the marsh interact and transform in ways that escape managerial discourse, revealing a haze of category and control errors that complicate knowledge, agency, and responsibility. While developers translate waste to land in relation to developmental goals, fishing communities, scientists, and activists translate it differently: scientists translate it in relation to chemical properties, interactions, and timelines; marine-life activists draw attention to its coastal ecologies; and fisher communities look for productive possibilities on a polluted shore. These translations attend to the inseparability of waste substances from the coast and its futures. They articulate a politics that acknowledges waste's sociopolitics, material agency, temporalities, and multispecies ethics. [coast, waste, development, pollution, marine life, ecology, chemistry, Mumbai
Agency (philosophy · Environmental ethics · Garbage · Marsh · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Waste management · Wetland · Ecology · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |