{"id":2066,"date":"2024-02-01T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:33:33","slug":"manisha-anantharaman-recycling-class-the-contradictions-of-inclusion-in-urban-sustainability-mit-press-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/2024\/02\/01\/manisha-anantharaman-recycling-class-the-contradictions-of-inclusion-in-urban-sustainability-mit-press-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Manisha Anantharaman, Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability. MIT Press, 2024."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to announce the publication on 2 January 2024 of the book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/9780262546973\/recycling-class\/\">Recycling Class The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability<\/a><\/em>, by Manisha Anantharaman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2070\" style=\"width:242px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1.png 596w, https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.sciencespo.fr\/research\/cities\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1-50x75.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 596px, 596px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India&#8217;s discards.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>In <em>Recycling Class<\/em>, Manisha Anantharaman examines the ideas, flows, and relationships around unmanaged discards in Bengaluru, India, itself a massive environmental problem of planetary proportions, to help us understand what types of coalitions deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives. <em>Recycling Class <\/em>links middle-class, sustainable consumption with the environmental labor of the working poor to offer a relational analysis of urban sustainability politics and practice. Through ethnographic, community-based research, Anantharaman shows how diverse social groups adopt, contest, and modify neoliberal sustainability&#8217;s emphasis on market-based solutions, behavior change, and the aesthetic conflation of \u201cclean\u201d with \u201cgreen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Tracing garbage politics in Bengaluru for over a decade, Anantharaman argues that middle-class \u201ccommunal sustainability<em>\u201d <\/em>efforts create new avenues for waste picker organizations to make claims for infrastructural inclusion. Coproduced \u201cDIY infrastructures\u201d serve as sites of citizenship and political negotiation, challenging the technocratic and growth-based logics of dominant sustainability policies. Yet, these configurations reproduce class, caste, and gender-based divisions of labor, demonstrating that inclusion without social reform can reproduce unjust distributions of risk and responsibility. Revealing the win-win fallacy of sustainability and foregrounding the agency of communities excluded from environmental policy, <em>Recycling Class <\/em>will appeal to scholars and activists alike who want to create a future with more transformative sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the publication on 2 January 2024 of the book Recycling Class The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability, by Manisha Anantharaman. Abstract An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India&#8217;s discards. In Recycling Class, Manisha Anantharaman examines the ideas, flows, and relationships around unmanaged discards in Bengaluru, India, itself a massive environmental problem of planetary proportions, to help us understand what types of coalitions deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives. 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