{"id":449,"date":"2021-11-29T14:42:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduprojecttopics.com\/journals\/?p=449"},"modified":"2021-11-29T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:42:53","slug":"an-index-of-waste-humanitarian-design-dignified-living-and-the-politics-of-infrastructure-in-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduprojecttopics.com\/journals\/an-index-of-waste-humanitarian-design-dignified-living-and-the-politics-of-infrastructure-in-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"An index of waste: humanitarian design, ‘dignified living’ and the politics of infrastructure in Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

Periodical Article: An index of waste: humanitarian design, ‘dignified living’ and the politics of infrastructure in Cape Town<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Title:<\/td>\nAn index of waste: humanitarian design, ‘dignified living’ and the politics of infrastructure in Cape Town<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Authors:<\/td>\nRedfield, Peter\"ISNI\"<\/a>
\nRobins, Steven\"ISNI\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Year:<\/td>\n2016<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Periodical:<\/td>\nAnthropology Southern Africa\u00a0(ISSN 2332-3264)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Volume:<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Issue:<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pages:<\/td>\n145-162<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Language:<\/td>\nEnglish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Geographic term:<\/td>\nSouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Subjects:<\/td>\nsanitation
\nbodily wastes
\nsocial status<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
External link:<\/td>\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23323256.2016.1172942<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Abstract:<\/td>\nThis article develops a framework for thinking about waste as an index that signals a relational position within contested, historically layered conceptions of human order. It follows two contrasting frameworks for thinking about sanitation infrastructure: a quest to redesign the toilet at a global level for underserved populations, and popular conceptions of rights, citizenship and dignity grounded in the materiality of infrastructure in post-apartheid South Africa. By integrating highly abstract understandings of value with intimately embodied qualities of experience, the problem of sanitation simultaneously connects and divides human populations. It unites them at a species level, only to distinguish them at a social one. From this perspective, human waste is hardly a neutral substance, defined by its chemical properties. Rather, waste actively registers relational human status and position within a political ecology of needs. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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