Wandering Islands1
Towards an Archaeology of Garbage-Based Settlements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3142303 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maryam Dezhamkhooy (Käte Hamburger Kolleg für Apokalyptische und Postapokalyptische Studien, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 542-554 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-08 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.2023.2170910 |
| OpenAlex | W4319982932 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
The growing rate of global inequality, on the one hand, and hyper-consumerism, particularly among higher socio-economic classes in developed countries, on the other, have resulted in the emergence of new forms of subsistence, lifestyles and settlement types where subaltern groups and populations live and work. This paper investigates the emergence of two of these kinds of settlement in Tehran, Iran, that have developed based on the intersection of two factors: garbage and undocumented migration. In these places, undocumented Afghan migrants sort and sell dry garbage. At the same time, these places shelter the workers, chiefly teenage and underage undocumented Afghan migrants. This paper is a preliminary effort to archaeologically categorize and conceptualize these garbage-based settlements. Archaeology is among the best methodologies to investigate the materiality and inequality faced by such transient subaltern groups in the short and long term. Here I discuss how several factors, beyond absolute poverty, participate in turning garbage into a livelihood and generate garbage-based settlements
Archaeology · Business · Garbage · Geography · Human settlement · Indigenous · Inequality · Livelihood · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Subaltern · Subsistence agriculture · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ecology · Engineering · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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Discard Studies
Contemporary Past, Archaeology of the
The Happiest of Finds
Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration
Whose world and whose archaeology? The colonial present and the return of the political
Wounded Memory of Hazara Refugees from Afghanistan Remembering and Forgetting Persecution
Flowers in the Garbage
Refugee Studies and the international refugee regime
The Iranian Afghans
Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past
The Right to the City
Afghanistan
Ethnic diversity, distrust and corruption in Afghanistan
Activism and creating a translational archaeology of homelessness
The archaeology of a marginal neighborhood in Tehran, Iran
The everywhere war
The right to the city
Archaeology and contemporary society
Waste intimacies
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