Power, politics and a poo pump
Contestation over legitimacy, access and benefits of sanitation technology in Kampala
Bibliographic Data
Most literature on sanitation largely follows a developmentalist approach, searching for the right combination of public education, appropriate technology, and partnerships across local and international institutions. Such works are useful, but also can be read as demonstrating the limitations of focusing on the modern infrastructural ideal of uniform, networked services. Studies of household experiences and practices of infrastructure in global south cities have increasingly drawn attention to the heterogeneity of sanitation infrastructure, associated everyday practices and power‐laden relationships. In this study, we analyse the introduction of the gulper pump (a new sanitation technology in Kampala) and the political processes that have shaped its slow and stochastic uptake. Advocates suggest that the gulper might well redress gaps left by the more commonly used technologies, yet procedural concerns led to conflict over the introduction of the gulper. In a wider context of new governance arrangements and infrastructural experimentation, controversy over the gulper contributed to new institutions and imaginaries of what good urban sanitation entails. We emphasize that thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations highlights how social norms and relations, economic gain as well as the state play an important part in both politicizing and legitimizing more heterogeneous urban sanitation services
Business · Context (archaeology) · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Improved sanitation · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Redress · Sanitation · Sociology · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Engineering · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Neither more nor less, but enough
Kampala
What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa
The contribution of urban reform coalitions to inclusive and equitable cities
Catalysing urban reform through coalition-building in African cities
Beyond technological flexibility
Living with fragile infrastructure
Adequacy of vacuum and non-vacuum technologies for emptying faecal sludge from informal settlements of Kampala City
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal
Sanitation configurations in Lilongwe
Making heterogeneous infrastructure futures in and beyond the global south
Navigating heterogeneous sanitation configurations
Infrastructure in formation
Johannesburg's shitty little river
The Promise of Infrastructure
The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South
Social Power and the Urbanization of Water
Splintering Urbanism
Grassroots innovation movements
Everyday states and water infrastructure
African dreams
Life (and limb) in the fast-lane
Planning Kampala
Governing urban informality
A heritage of unsustainability? Reviewing the origin of the large-scale water and sanitation system in Kampala, Uganda
Intersectionality challenges for the co-production of urban services
Geographies of shit
Socio-technical regimes and sustainability transitions
Claiming value in a heterogeneous solid waste configuration in Kampala
STS beyond the “modern infrastructure ideal”
The Poolitical City
In the Nature of the Non‐City
Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale
Electricity services always in the making
Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations
Differentiating networked services in Cape Town
(Re-)Conceptualizing water inequality in Delhi, India through a feminist political ecology framework
Splintered networks
Fake capitalism? The dynamics of neoliberal moral restructuring and pseudo-development
Incremental infrastructures
Garbage Citizenship
Sanitation sustainability, seasonality and stacking
Citizenshit
Heterogeneous water provision in Dar es Salaam
Toward The Networked City? Translating Technological ideals and Planning Models in Water and Sanitation Systems in Dar es Salaam
Fragment urbanism
Interrogating the geographies of the familiar
Disrupted Infrastructures
Reconceptualising urbanism, ecology and networked infrastructures
People as Infrastructure
Pressure
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |