NBN Classic: Rosalind Fredericks, "Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Transforming the Municipal Trash Sector in Dakar
There's quite a lot that actually happens between the late 1980s and your field work in 2006 to 2007. Can you tell us a little bit about the causes and the consequences of that turnover? Yeah, so I think, I mean a major one of the major stories that I'm trying to tell here is a story of austerity. So one of the kind of key interventions here is sort of tracing in a very textured and nuanced way through this one urban public service,. The municipal trash sector in Dakar has its transformation in the wake of structural adjustment.
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